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Noel Gardner
, March 17th, 2021 09:00
Rimming disasters, Cockney piano and countryfied garage rock expectorations. Noel Gardner probes the boundaries of punk rock once again
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Can it really be a whole year since I was sporting a ‘beer jacket’ in north London at the Static Shock Weekend, being given a flyer for
The Chisel’s debut gig, briefly wondering who The Chisel were and swiftly realising they were all in the place too? Course it can! We’re not going to do that soft-arsed Facebook anniversary palaver, though, because The Chisel have had a productive 12 months even if you haven’t.
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If your band plays raw, heavy music marked by full-tilt tempos and throat-peeling screams, it can be hard to set yourself apart from more than 40 years of music in that vein. While many of their ultra-fast punk peers stay well within the trails blazed by bands like crossover thrash standard-bearers D.R.I., hardcore punks Infest or grindcore progenitors Napalm Death, Nashvilleâs Thirdface has thoughtfully crafted a sound they can proudly call their own. Abandoning formulaic norms, the Nashville foursome has spent the past several years finding new ways to create music that shows the influence of titans in the genre without regurgitating their work.Â
My Wall Brings Meditative Doom, Eve Maret Makes Improv Excursions Streams from the sludgy three-piece and the electronic soloist were highlights of the weekend Tweet
Scene s Q&A with Nashville trio
My Wall last week, the group broke down some of the influences behind its ultra-intense new 12-inch “The Event” backed with “Abuse.” Recorded by drummer
Carlos Ortiz, mixed by Yautja s Shibby Poole and mastered by Mikey Allred at the venerable Dark Arts, the two-song release is a heady hybrid of drone, grunge, hardcore punk and doom metal styles. The group brought the new material to life in a set streamed from
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Nashville’s Yautja is a world-class metal band in our own backyard. For the past decade, the trio named for the trophy-hunting alien species from the
Predator films has captivated audiences locally and abroad with its atypical triple-threat of hardcore-punk grit and speed, death-metal growls and blast beats, and molasses-thick, Melvins-esque sludge. Where most metal bands’ sounds lie on one end of the visceral-or-cerebral spectrum, the racket conjured by bassist Kayhan Vaziri, guitarist Shibby Poole and drummer Tyler Coburn occupies the middle. A carefully crafted mixture of paint-peeling noise-rock riffs, metallic pinch harmonics, gut-rumbling low-end churn, and off-the-wall but in-the-pocket percussion, it’s simultaneously complex, forceful and clear.