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A short one today about the demo of this new hardcore band hailing from
Denver, Colorado.
It looks like the new Denver hardcore scene got something for the super
brutal, heavy and extremely angry stomping kind of hardcore (something in
the air maybe). If you've heard of James Trejo you may know he is
behind some of the sickest releases on
Youth Attack Record
(Cadaver Dog,
Life Support,
Snarling Hate
to name only a few) and he's from Denver so it didn't come as a
surprise when I learned that
a proper scene for that kind of sound was on the rise there.
And Gordon, the singer of Prowler, is very much
involved in this scene, he's the drummer for
Direct Threat,
P.S.Y.W.A.R and
Raw Breed
but also sings in
The Consequence
(in which James Trejo plays the bass by the way), so yes I think
it's safe to say that Gordon is into brutal shit. To be honest, I
don't listen to that kind of stuff too much but it reminds me of the
energy and heavy anger of the first
Boston Strangler
LP (Gordon's T-shirt on the above photo!), of
No Tolerance, of
Violent Reaction
from the UK, and of all those bands influenced by the heavy side of the
Boston SxE hardcore scene (where at least one band member must have his
head shaved!). Anyway I think you got the point now.
Super rad cover artwork by Rory O'Neill right?
The demo was released on tape (and on bandcamp of course) by
Iron Lung
a few weeks ago and I was immediately hooked by the kind of furious noise
these guys are making.
With five songs out six below the one minute mark, Prowler don't
really slow down compared to the bands mentioned before so you got what
you except: fast in-your-face hardcore punk, but with a slightly "less
aggressive" vibe! Saying that they play a less brutal kind of hardcore
than Direct Threat for example would probably be a lie even if it's
clear that the influences are clearly different. Where
Direct Threat is clearly showing an Oi!-influenced and heavy
stomping side (like faster versions of
Negative Approach,
86 Mentality
or more recently
Buggy
and
Heavy Discipline), Prowler got a slightly lighter (and faster) sound and, most of
all, show clear influences of early and pre-Youth Crew hardcore
bands from NYC.
So yes, as mentioned on the bandcamp page, classic names
immediately come to mind, names like
Youth Of Today,
Abused
or
Antidote
(yeah, pretty flattering references), and I'm definitely more into that
shit than into the stomping kind.
But here's the main news: this demo totally rips!
Whereas a band like
Thought Control
clearly takes from the Antidote side of New York Hardcore,
Prowler mixes perfectly the early Youth Crew influences (the gang
vocals etc...) with some very fast and pummelling drum beats (the
drummer's a killer!), catchy bass lines, crushing mosh parts and sharp
riffs. And most of all you don't feel like you're listening to the same
old hardcore song over and over again, each track got its own distinctive
structure and is a total killer!
As a debut release this tape's classified as a demo but, honestly, the
whole thing sounds so good it deserves a vinyl release straight away.
A full length in a few months maybe?
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