2022
With the advent of ever present social media and streaming services it's become easier than ever for great albums to slip through someone's radar, if only due to the sheer volume of new releases that drop every single week. I distinctly recall hearing a few songs off Chicago hardcore band Snuffed's debut LP "Coping Human Waste" when it came out in May, thinking it sounded really good and then spacing out on it. Obviously this was a huge error on my part, because in revisiting this album the last week it's consistently knocked me on my ass and I keep coming back for more. Chicago has always been a hotbed for some of the hardest hitting faster hardcore you can hear, and this LP is no exception. The 10 songs on this record are filled with some of the catchiest riffs and vicious performance you're likely to hear this year. Picture a caustic mixture of the blistering fastcore bands like CHEW, Coke Bust and Sick Fix colliding with the catchy, memorable riffing of American Nightmare or Suicide File, all through the lense of the blown out noise that raw punk bands such as D-Clone, Disclose and Gism. What really brings everything together is just how hard and passionate the band comes songwriting and performance wise. Everything that makes a perfect hardcore record energizing and addictive is on display here, and I highly recommend anyone that's interested in any of the above mentioned bands checks this out immediately.
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