Venom Snipers In Jail demo cassette
Brief, weird hardcore demo that recalls the era when SST Records started encouraging the freakos to grow out their hair and reach beyond traditional punk blueprints. The band rips serviceable blown-out chords à la early BLACK FLAG, but the unique vocal style is what sells it. Imagine a weathered, tobacco-destroyed baritone narrating a driver’s ed scare video or reading a Cormac McCarthy audiobook: world-weary, emotionless, and intimidating in its detached authority. Now place that voice front and center, doing deadpan spoken word over hardcore punk. I went from “What the fuck is this?” to “Yes, sir, I’m listening” in five seconds. I don’t want to get grounded again, you know?