Arson

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Arson M​á​s Noize cassette

Brooklyn noise punk massively influenced by Japanese masters such as CONFUSE or KURO. Punishing layers of distortion, pressing down upon more layers of punishing distortion. Everything is mangled and destroyed, with the songs just emerging from the sonic wreckage. Agonizing vocals float above the mix, with wailing painful shouts reverberating through the deforested soundscape. Most of the selections are speedy, brief, treble-driven blasts, but the seventh cut, “Sabbath,” takes a turn down a more plodding, blackened path before kicking the tempo back up mid-flight. A fine example of grotesque “music” guaranteed to frighten your strait-laced neighbors.

Arson Savage Butchery cassette

This is thrash in the VOID tradition, with an edge to the guitar that never strays quite into a metal territory but is still more than fast enough to really nail this fucker home. The vocals are snarled through with a tinge of reverb and just a hint of restraint (barring, of course, the few moments where this thing really kicks into gear). This is hardcore from Leeds, UK by characters you’ve heard from before (PERSPEX FLESH comes to mind) who got the Static Shock treatment, though this is a demo that sounds more like it could’ve come out on 625 Thrashcore sometime during the 2000s—highly recommended.