Lucta Eterna Lotta LP
Italian punks LUCTA recently released Eterna Lotta, which is a boiling cauldron of hardcore that mutates and evolves in chugs and thrashing. The opening song starts with what sounds like an organ, but then guitars merge with it, soon a bootstomper starts to assemble, and then the tempo doubles into lightspeed. I really get into the song “Il Peso Di leri,” or “The Weight of Yesterday,” which is a plodding song that ends with discordance and decaying sounds. I’m reminded of EMPTY VESSELS from Connecticut with the type of hardcore LUCTA plays, but obviously LUCTA sings in Italian. The type of playful hardcore that pushes the limits of the genre and explores atmospheric sounds and abstract rhythms all while being punk as fuck. Having been a band for a while now, LUCTA has only issued a few recordings, so Eterna Lotta is definitely worth checking out.