Who doesn’t like a great hardcore record that makes one punch a hole through a wall? Strap on your boots, because it’s time to slam with Iowa City’s BOOTCAMP. Proper USHC delivered in an intense manner, sounding fresh but remaining true to the classic tropes. You will find them on the same record store shelf as ARMOR and some of the 11 PM releases. Time’s Up, go listen to this! Now!
Fast and angry hardcore punk from Iowa City with a D-beat backbone and catchy hooks. With their sights set on the genocidal war machine in the Middle East, Henry Kissinger, scummy rich kids, and the factory-farming ravaging the Midwest, BOOTCAMP provides plenty to hate (on) here. Each track is a banger, but I recommend the closing title track, “Controlled Burn.” At a whopping one-minute-and-forty-seconds, it’s their longest track and a total scorcher, one you can imagine the knock-off Looney Tunes on the cover dancing to while the industrial farming facility behind them burns to the ground. Great stuff and highly recommended.
