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More Japancore annihilation for you today. Warhead - Drive It In Your Headis probably their most hard to find release, at least stateside. It’s also not necessarily as well liked as their first 2 7″s which are much more high speed and thrashy. Drive It In Your Head works a much more mid paced rockin’ tempo through the tunes but, with the same power drill guitar sound and screaming bloody hell vocals.
Getsuka bursts open with a machine gun style drum fill that starts to lock into a kind of groove back and forth across the toms. Even though it’s a break from the high speed stuff they’d done up to this point, the drumming itself is still actually quite fast, it just doesn’t take the form of a straight beat. Bass and then guitar start to swell over it and then you get the psychotic vocals. They pretty much sound the way the singer of Warhead looked when I saw them in the US in 2006. He had a mohawk, no teeth, and the same clothes at all the shows I saw them at (these were a few weeks apart). A serious lifer. His vocals shred with a kind of highish rasp, some hardcore singers really just end up talking in a scary voice, but this dude is belting it the fuck out. Every muscle on his body has got to be tightening up and as for his actual vocal chords, I can only imagine they look ravaged by machine-gun fire.
Face Crisis [???] continues with the pattern set up on the first song, throbbing bass, heavy drums, and guitars and vocals spiraling close to the edge of total collapse. In some ways I guess this all sounds more modern Japanese than the earlier Warhead stuff, but it’s still too unpredictable and wild to blend in with the crowd over there (like some of the lesser Burning Spirits style groups).
The last track Nichitai is basically some kind of noise-scape built on a cascading drum swell, random blasts of feedback and string noise from the guitars, screeching mic feedback, and wordless screams. This is probably the kind of thing you’d expect from some harsh noisers and at first it does seem like a bit of a throw-away, but it still holds onto the same intensity and broken up chaos of the two more traditional “song” offerings. All around a good way to punctuate the first two songs.
Love the cover on this one with the fighting wolves too. Very noble.
Face Crisis [???] - hopefully I’m not just stating the obvious, but I guess “face” is a verb here.
This record is HARD, I think the punk Illuminati that used to tell me it sucked have finally come around. Their set at CBGB was one of the most bombastic live sounds I have ever heard.
ah totally didn’t think of it as like facing crisis. was thinking about someone with like an abnormal nose or something of that sort.
Great band! Saw them in Tokyo and I think they sounded even crazier than at CBGB. The guitarist’s rig sounds like sheet metal being cut on a table saw. i could really use a copy of this if anyone has one for trade.