New Blood! SQUALOR, ZRADA, DESTRUYE Y DESTRUYE and MEATBAG
New Blood is our regular web feature spotlighting new bands from around the world!
Now check out some killer new shit…
“New Blood” is our weekly feature here spotlighting new bands from around the world! See below for info on how to submit. Now, check out some killer new shit…
Band name:
SQUALOR
Date & location formed:
Early 2014 in Portland, OR.
Reason for forming:
We’re all from different parts of the United States and we go together to form the most pissed off band in Portland.
What are your lyrics about?
Being pissed off, Personal issues, etc.
How would you describe your sound?
Noisey, feed-backy, angry, hardcore punk
What’s in the future for this band?
A couple EPs and and a full-length that we are currently working on. Quite possibly some tours too.
Date & location formed:
We were formed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, at the end of 2013 – beginning 2014.
Reason for forming:
We used to be in different bands which sound pretty differently and with this new band we wanted to play hardcore, the way we understand it. Angrier, shorter, with interweaving threads of punk.
What are your lyrics about?
Lyrics is about feelings and emotions which often replace and complement each other. Good and bad. Trust and betrayal, expectations and frustration, aggression and anger control, pain and hope, despair and self-confidence.
How would you describe your sound?
We call it Kharkiv Hardcore. It’s based on old-school hardcore with maybe a bit of NYHC and spiced up with punk rock.
What’s in the future for this band?
We finally got our first 7″ out after unbearable long wait. And now we are working on our first European appearance which is planned for April, mainly in Poland. And second European tour some time in July-August where we’re planning not only to play shows but also to speak up about events in Ukraine — the war unleashed by Russian imperialism. Thanks to some stupid Stalinists in the scene and other sick folks with USSR-nostalgia many European left-wing people support anti-Ukrainian sentiments. Such pro-Kremlin lobbyists promote the idea that whole Ukraine is a fascist state and only true antifascists are those terrorists and Russian mercenaries and regular army forces of Russia, which annexed the Crimea and invaded some parts of Eastern Ukraine. We as antifascists want to convey our point of view and explain that those Russian-backed “freedom fighters” on the East of Ukraine have nothing to do with antifascism but strictly with Russian imperial conquest.
Date & location formed:
Quito, Peru, January 2015.
Reason for forming:
We were talking about media projects, and decided make some raw noisey band, with the premise of being a three-member band which can plug the guitar into an amplifier and make 15 minutes of sound in any shitty place.
What are your lyrics about?
About a lot of circumstances of surviving in South America.
How would you describe your sound?
Raw crust punk, pizza in blender.
What’s in the future for this band?
Make noise till somebody like Rafael Correa puts a bullet in his head, record our first album on Pluteras Records, tour through South America.
Date & location formed:
Summer of ’14, Tony Office, Massachusetts.
Reason for forming:
Two of us were living together and wanted to play as much as possible and there was no reason not to. Meatbag was a byproduct of a few other existing projects that ended up working out.
Meatbag (photo by Faz)
What are your lyrics about?
Mostly vanity in punk, and survival as a low form. Night people. Comets.
How would you describe your sound?
Catchy, gross noise punk from space.
What’s in the future for this band?
A flexi and another tape coming in a month or so.
Do you have or know of an awesome new band? It’s easy to submit to be in MRR’s New Blood feature. Use our new online submission form or just email us the following info, and keep keeping’ it real…
1) Band name:
2) Date & location formed:
3) Reason for forming:
4) What are your lyrics about?
5) How would you describe your sound?
6) What’s in the future for this band?
7) Links and contact info:
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