D.Y.E

 

picture by Aaron Rhodes

D.Y.E is a new hardcore punk band hailing from Kansas City, Missouri, featuring members of Tremenda Venganza, Trauma Plate, Big Cola, Kolumbine Kids and other KC punk acts.

These guys released a demo and full length in a few months earlier this year and guess what? they both totally rip.

 

 

 Released on Dirt Bag in May this 4-track demo is pure aggression from start to finish, the intro is a sample sounding like someone opening the door to a bar, smashing a bottle, and immediately starting a fight (another Saturday night in KC?), so consider yourself warned: you're gonna get some!

D.Y.E's tracks are short, fast and angry as fuck hardcore punk gems alternating between fast and heavy parts on which the vocalist never stops throwing out hate and disgust. It's a demo so it probably sounds heavier that it should (a lot of mosh parts reminiscent of the heavy side of the early NY hardcore scene), sounding a bit like a "tough guy" hardcore band at time.

  It's a cool demo but slightly too "heavy" for me, thankfully the real deal is coming next with... RULES!

 

 

 Once again released on Dirtbag Distro, Rules is the embodiment of everything that every hardcore punk fan expects. It's short, fast and bloody aggressive! In a nutshell it totally rips from start to finish!

 

 

  Featuring a classic but cool and restrained artwork by Swiasty, this record is not in bad taste overkill at all, just twelve pure hardcore punk ripper tracks that's all! With nine of them clocking in before the 1:30 mark this is done in total no-bullshit mode, no time's wasted here ma'am, oh no! Recalling early 80s USHC or some bands from the No Way Records catalogue, D.Y.E perfectly masters the recipe of a great hardcore punk song, not forgetting to plant a few seeds of heaviness here and there but in a much more subtle way than on the demo this time (and that's a lot better).

I can think of bands like Glib or Discovery but above all if you liked Loss Prevention (from KC as well), you'll love D.Y.E. The new hardcore sound of the Midwest?

 

Definitely one of my favourite record of the year. 

 

N,J'Oi!

 

 

 

You can listen to D.Y.E on Rien à Faire #28.

 

 

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