Attack SS

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Attack SS Land of Slaughter LP

Prepare to have your eardrums decimated by the punishing noise of Japanese stalwart punx ATTACK SS. Back with their first release since 2019, Land of Slaughter features seven new songs and four re-recorded cuts from their Mask of Those EP. No big deviation from their previous output; what follows is top-tier crasher crust pushed well beyond the limits of acceptable listenability. Blazingly fast drums and razor-thin guitars bolstered by a burly bass fuzz lead the full-on aural assault. Layers of distortion crush the notion of fidelity, leaving behind a series of vignettes that champion freedom in the face of monstrous tyranny. Punk-addled chaos, on the level with FRAMTID, ZYANOSE, CONTRAST ATTITUDE, etc. If your constitution allows for imbibing noize-distroyed raw D-beat punk, then this will go down a fukkin’ treat.

Attack SS Mask of Those EP

Oh, wow. Wall-of-noise, energy-rush, noise not music, spiked hardcore. An advanced seminar of sound production, due to its on-full spotlight. ATTACK SS is not always fast on this record but even then the loudness, the blasted-echo cave drums, the grooves shaking the room of the record from wall to wall are making the whole 7″ so dense it is overloading my senses and places me into the middle of their own chaos. Although ATTACK SS’s chaos is not confusing, it solely operates with huge objects to test my impulse control that tends to surrender. All four songs are bit different enough to make the EP an adventure while a 45 with this production level would be easy to get away with, though they put enough creative energy to the writing as much as only the final number contains an LP-full of ideas. They prove their capabilities in different fields, whether it be a machine-gun-like tempo race in the opening track or a groovy, heavy-crusher mid-tempo number. This is a beast and they are able to control it, with a precision demonstrated by the stop and go parts of the aforementioned closing track. ATTACK SS is up there on the same shelf as FRAMTID, GLOOM, D-CLONE. Buy this and wish for a full-length.