Blistering Noise The 2023 Demo: Stop Gaza Genocide cassette
This is not a scam—BLISTERING NOISE, just like EXTREME NOISE TERROR, accurately describes their sound with their band name. Hailing from Japan with members of many prominent bands (ZODIAK, UNARM, DROPEND, KAFKA, KRIEGSHÖG), they play crasher crust. It is energetic yet less chaotic. The guitar and bass notes are recognizable despite their distortion, so naive melodies are pumping under the wall of noise. The songwriting mixes well with the pace changes and stops and bridges. If you are a big fan of the style, then this will be a good monthly dose. Although I miss the uncontrolled nature of crasher crust, everything is in place for a blast, but the burning match is not thrown on the gas-soaked floor. They use a lot of mid-tempo parts and everything sounds well-thought-out and polished—I mean, compared to one BPM from falling apart speed race, rolling, collapsing song structures, and maddened screaming vocals, it is more adjusted. As this is a demo, it’s really promising, so I hope they continue and don’t mind losing their shit on the records.