Indonesia’s wild punk tiger with D-beat cadences on e-drums, filthier and nastier than you would think. Hardcore punk rhythms with blunt, rusty chainsaw executioner guitars and vocal sections that resemble classic ’80s USHC in performance and recording quality. Holding an interesting energy and raw punk vibes all around, it accomplishes catharsis and feels authentic, as it should be.
A warm, lo-fi embalming of class-itch hardcore. The bass distortion is particularly crunchy, while the songwriting is traditionally stompy with outstanding trembling drum rolls. Vocals are belted with intense power—a furnace recalling INTEGRITY and REACT, and later ANTIMOB and GOLPE. As the four tracks move on, RASKOL gets more comfortable with their flow while simultaneously bashing you up with thunderous hardcore punk beats and dark beatdown riffs. MIND ERASER and HOAX come to mind, bringing my stomach back to an unsettling point, and my mind to euphorically grinning, pre-pandemic pits, if that makes sense? RASKOL feels new and relevant but from a timeless place. This is a short, sharp shocker of a tape that you’ll return to immediately, as it really settles into being special about a quarter of the way through. That’s a good thing. Get with the flowgram and follow that snare…
