Il Mondo Diviso split EP

Split 7” from CCP Records, a Sydney-based collective focused on international collaboration. Milan’s I PENTITI plays a groaning, gothy deathrock meets blackened hardcore on their two tracks, evoking haunted house vibes through lurching riffs, shrieked vocals, and evil spirit hardcore. Imagine members of RAW POWER, BONE AWL, and CHRISTIAN DEATH stuck in a falling elevator together. Whether or not you want to be in that elevator is a different question, but it does rip for the right listener. Side Two comes from Sydney’s HDPE, in the form of two noisy basement “anti-hardcore” jams full of delayed vocals, pounding drum cadences, and freaky hooks that emerge through the haze. “A Vision” contains the chant, “Luigi has a vision / Luigi has a vision.” No idea what that could be about. Perhaps they are big Super Mario Bros. fans. Although the two bands are sonically different, there is a dark, grimy feel to both in energy and execution that makes for a great pairing.