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How do you write an 11-minute powerviolence song? How is that possible? As a genre, powerviolence is defined, at least in large part, by its brevity. Bands challenge themselves and each other to come up with short, disorienting bursts of anxiety. A song might be 45 seconds long, and it might switch riffs and tempos three times. The whole point is to keep you on edge, off-kilter. You can’t settle into a groove. The very idea of groove is antithetical to the entire project. But the best powerviolence song that I’ve heard in a long minute is Brain Tourniquet’s “An Expression In Pain,” a berserk marathon that roils and splinters and heaves and spits for 10 minutes and 49 seconds. It moves from guttural grind to soul-shattered noise to demonic march to god knows what else, and it earns every second. ....
I’ve never been to San Jose, but I now have a mental image of the city as a place where you can get spinkicked just for living. There are so many heavy-ass hardcore bands coming from that town, and even if it’s just the same small group of people playing in all these different bands, those people are talented and industrious enough that they must just run the whole city, right? The new Field Of Flames EP does nothing to contradict my imaginary idea of a land where people crowdkill while they’re out grocery shopping. ....