Green Crack Kreten flexi EP
Regardless of what sides of the “what is/isn’t” or even “is it even a thing that exists” powerviolence arguments you may land on, it would be hard to deny that we are eating well at the trough of new PV bands the last couple of years. Enter GREEN CRACK, a band that sounds like it was born of meticulous study of the PV big names like INFEST and CROSSED OUT, but manages to modernize the sound and insert some Eastern European moments to make it feel distinct. It falls a little flat for me in not sounding harsh or powerful enough, possibly due to the vocals which, while being in the PV style you’d expect, maybe bounce a bit too much in early thrash metal style and are a bit reverbed and clean to make them stand out too much. The snare sound here also just doesn’t click for me to give the tunes the accent they need. I can’t speak for the lyrics, but they do throw in a couple samples in English that don’t really add much to my ear. Fairly inessential, but to be applauded for their conviction.