Flush It Friday: I’m Lookin’ at the World…
…through a bullet hole.
San Diego’s Mizery is back with a 6-track EP via the vinyl-munching Flatspot Records. Sporting sounds and styles from West Coast luminaries Suicidal Tendencies, tri-state legends Life of Agony and E-Town Concrete, and ’90s icons Rage Against the Machine, Mizery is demonstrating how to mix hardcore and hip-hop in that oh-so delicate balancing act. Taking a page aesthetically, too, from Turnstile, could have them seeing Taco Bell ads in their future, but my guess is that everything is still too hard, too raw, too rooted to something indelible for that kind of commercial success. Evil Empire meets River Runs Red.
Though emo and skramz keep going through revivals, I rarely hear anything about Missouri’s Love Lost But Not Forgotten. The band’s two LPs from the early 00s got a lot of play in my best friend’s mom’s car we used to drive around when we didn’t have anything better to do. Fortunately, the dude(s) in City of Caterpillar running The Archivist saw fit to release four early LLBNF demo tracks as a way to reintroduce the world to one of the gnarliest, angriest, sharpest, and singular acts of that era. Vocals that splinter glass and riffs that spazz and grind.
The sun never summer-sets on Somerset. Unburier hails from the UK and plays a kind of Revocation-esque blend of melodic, thrashy death metal, replete with guitar harmonies, breakdowns, and moments of technical prowess. While listening to the band’s latest EP As Times Awaits, I also find myself thinking quite a lot about Death. The riff that starts around 2:48 in “Abyssal Uncertainty” might find its way soon to Riff ov the Week Month, as could the track’s final triumphant tremolo blast. Unburier would fit hand-in-glove on Unspeakable Axe Records. There’s broad appeal here, and I hope the band finds it.
FLUSH LOST BUT NOT FLUSH GOTTEN.
Like clockwork, Stick‘s got TMP and Roldy‘s got TTT.
Stevo‘s got 4.5 Flaming Toilets for the latest from Germany’s Cruel Force.
Toilet Radio 613 features Joe ‘n Jordan doin’ what they’re always doin’. There’s nonsense in the metal world, and someone has to address.
I was fortunate enough to bring you an exclusive track premiere from the forthcoming Pissrot.
It might’ve been a light week in the Bowl, but it’s a heavy week literally everywhere else. Drop your GBUs in the comments. Be good to others and yourself. XOXO
