Jackal

 

 

picture by Zach Rogers

 

Jackal is a young hardcore band from Florida and has probably been around since 2016.

 

Well to be honest, since the beginning of this blog I wanted to write a little something about these young swamps fennecs. Their demo and 7" blew me away and I was just waiting for a more recent release to keep it nice and fresh... and here is finally the occasion.

 

These guys play some great punk hardcore with a pinch of toughness, Negative Approach and SS Decontrol will of course immediately come to mind but also some more recent (great) bands like Back To Back, Obedience, Mind Violence and many others...

 

From the very first seconds of their 2017 demo, you know you have not stepped in a lounge bar: super dirty and noisy guitar sound, deafening cymbals, stomping drums and heavy (but not too much) vocals, these guys came here to stomp on your faces...

Sometimes fast, sometimes very fast, Jackal does not forget the heaviness of the mosh parts and respects perfectly all the codes of the genre: this is definitely hardcore baby!

 

The songs are dealing with classic hardcore themes about putting yourselves together, taking your life back, getting rid of bad influences etc... Predictable but efficient! 

 

 

 

 

Two years later, the Boston label Pain Killer Records specialised in Boston style HxC (gnarling vocals all over the place) releases the band first EP.

Jackal delivers 4 super aggressive, fast and heavy tracks which match perfectly the label criteria. Made from the same mould as the demo, this EP confirms that Jackal rules!

 

 

 

With a great sense of danger, urgency and violence of the Me-Against-the-world spirit (Jackal, Robbed Life, Cornered) but without putting aside the positive lessons of HxC (Help Yourself), these young dudes master a great EP in the tradition of the best 80s American Hardcore bands.

 

 

 

 

And here is their latest release which allows me to have Jackal on RAF!

Recorded live at the Paincave (Pain Killer Records recording studio I suppose) last September, we finally get to have a better idea of how Jackal sounds live.

Within these 8 songs (including two new songs from an upcoming EP), Jackal keeps stomping again and again some great hardcore punk. A great recording and live energy give to the whole lot a more interesting value than most live releases have (in my humble opinion).

I still believe the southern boys sound better on their EPs but well, I am a grumpy old man...

Digital only for now, it will be released as a tape in a few days.

 

   

 

Can't wait for the new EP!

oh and please make some new t-shirts, I love the artwork of the old ones but did not manage to order one on time! 

picture by Zach Rogers

You can listen to Jackal on Rien à Faire #14.

 

N,J'Oi!

 

 

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Duckis

Duckis is a new female-fronted punk band from Tallahassee, Florida, which has released a demo in march 2019 and a brand new tape last february.

Let's pass quickly on the 2019 demo, it's not bad though but it's really low-fi and all songs were re-recorded to be on their next tape... so let's focus on this one!

Lick It Up it's 10 (short) songs (including new versions of the 5 songs from the demo) recorded (and mixed and mastered!) by the band and released on tape by RIP Records.

With a lot better recording than the demo Duckis is delivering a snotty and hopping kind of straight forward punk which reminds me of the first Patsy 7", Depression Breakfast or The Debbie Downers ... so nothing completely new here but it's well made and the songs are diverse enough to keep me interested all along and that's good enough!

 Big up for the guitar work which makes most of the songs more enjoyable (especially on Run and Red Pill).

You got your fast and straight froward tunes like Paranoia, Run or The State, some mid-tempo stuff with Squeal and Snails and even some surprises like Oxygen (that I really like) with its strong 70s rock vibe.



A nice release for this new band!

 

N,J'Oi!


You can listen to Duckis on Rien à Faire #9.


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Android

Android is a new band from Orlando, Florida, and you can forget the wet summer and the herds of retired guys wearing shorts on the beach... these guys are not here for that...

They have just released Chapter 001, a 6-track nasty hardcore punk fury taking you to a super loud and violent dystopian cyber-punk future where hope is definitly not in the dictionary anymore...

Android it's Philip K Dick on speed covering for Henry Rollins on My War, it's an alternative raw version of Blade Runner if Mad Max was its soundtrack... 

Furious, noisy, full of anger and rage, Android is fast and heavy, crazy and sludgy...

like a bulldozer with a jet fighter engine at full speed in a Carmageddon game.

Android is great.

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You can listen to Android on Rien à Faire #9.

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SPUR

Well to be honest I don't know much about SPUR except what their page on the Invisible Audio tape label says: they hail from Broward County, Florida and they just released a demo tape named Cowboy Killer.

Punk with some touch of hardcore and high-pitched female vocals, the demo's good but I feel that it can get better, I will just wait and see I guess...

You can listen to SPUR and other sweet melodies in Rien à Faire #4. 

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