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Hase 14 Songs cassette

Austria’s HASE is a three-piece hardcore punk band with all members sharing vocal duties. This is an absolute barrage of pummeling, powerviolence-inspired fastcore. Fourteen songs in a total of eight-and-a-half minutes, all culminating in a punch-in-the-face CROSSED OUT cover. To make that even cooler for the PV devotees out there, the bassist’s vocals sound similar to the backing vocalist from the classic DESPISE YOU recordings, and that’s who takes the lead on the cover song. Truly battering. The packaging of this tape looks awesome, too. In all my years, I have never seen a cassette with an internal O-card slip, which is glued together around just the thinner portion of the cassette with band info and a thanks list covering both sides. Very slick. I can’t say enough good things about this release. I absolutely love it.