DESTROY ME AND DESTROY YOU: Review of Vivid Sekt’s “Dance Among The Debris” LP Written by Kenn Kroosåficks
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo dou dou dou dou dou dou dou douo doo doo doo doo do do da da de de – ta ta ta ta te te te te ta ta te te – drum roll – fucking killer guitar –
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PDX’s Vivid Sekt’s first full length LP “Dance Among the Debris” was dropped last year on Mass Media records, and I want to express my sincere apologies to the band and everyone who read my Top Six Positive Punk/Deathrock releases of 2011 for CVLT, but this should have been on the top of the list, and only my absent mind is to blame. Which is still no real excuse because this record is so nice I bought it twice. I snagged a copy on plain black, and was so impressed I NEEDED the transparent red limited copy.
From the second the needle drops, this LP kills. A powerful bassline backed by a pseudo-militaristic pounding drumbeat, coupled with a full guitar tone dancing with the bass for prominence. Singing/shouting is high-pitched, throaty, and flows into the music so perfectly, but maintains its command. This thing is fucking hooky as shit. It’ll be damn near impossible for me to review this album without trying to express the music in onomatopoeia and typing out all the lyrics, but I’m gonna give it a go.
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Review written by Kenn Kroosåficks
Record Label : Unseen Forces Records
Having fought through the DIScore D-beat apokalyptik war, PDX’s Deathcharge unleashes a new, but familiar brand of gloom-and-doom deathrocking gothic punk to the masses. Throughout the 90s, Deathcharge were sort of known as a Discharge worship band. One that did a damn good job at it, too, but in 2004, we got a demo cassette from Deathcharge revealing a bit of a darker direction, but still hardcore. In 2005, a 7″ ripper showing off a new style, was it hardcore or was it goth? It was pounding, for sure, but so gloomed over and retchingly lazy. Sheer depression and mental anguish. In 2011, they gave us their latest offering, their first LP, and the fruition of a dream. Love Was Born to an Early Death perfects that sound, and shoots both untitled* sides straight through your skull. Leading off is a chugging punk fucking rock track, which Adam typically drones over with a lazy attempt at carrying the tune, glooming the track over until you get hit by “BULLET WOUNDS // LOOK BEST ON // A FOREIGN CHILD”, leaving us with an anarcho-goth anthem to remember. It leads into Faith Dealers, a chorusy bassline driving you down, with a few shots of feedbacking guitar to the head and a drumbeat to the gut, dragging on for a minute and a half before Adam glooms the fuck all over the six and a half minute track, delivering a beautiful example of what deathrock should be. Raw, rough, and still fucking depressing. The side closes with all too familiar riffage in what would be a new recording of Deathrevels as Adam delivers vocals in an almost whispering shout, like a dead man crying for help. Side B kicks off with Sick Love, the track previewed by Unseen Forces for a free download, another chugging rocker that leads into some beautiful guitar work that switches off with Adam’s droning. The Last Farewell is a rough-and-tumble D-beat rocker, fast, abrasive, and screaming for you to shout it from the pit. The next track follows suit in a hardcore punk sound, as Adam breathlessly shouts his lines as this track leads into an interlude resembling the sound in the furnace from Eraserhead before the woman begins singing. The album closes with a chorusy bassline and tribal drum, sparse guitar playing, a bit of feedback and the darkest vocal delivery and most depressing lyrics on the album. THERE’S NOTHING I LOVE IN THIS WORLD, Newest Dark Age shows idealized gothic punk, not sure if you should dance, bash your face in the wall, overdose, or a combination of the three. A guitar solo shoots off in the middle picking your head up to listen to the end. I’M WAITING AND I WISH THAT I WOULD DIE SOMETIMES.
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This year was a pretty damn good year for positive punk if you ask me. A shit ton of killer goth and deathrock bands seemingly knee-deep in a dark anarcho-punk perspective have been springing up the last few years and 2011 seems to be the year that they all decided to get in the studio, hell, most of these are only the band’s first or second (official) release. Anyway, I don’t wanna bore you too much up here, so sit down (as if you weren’t already), shut up (if you’re reading this, there’s probably a coin toss that you don’t have anyone to talk to, anyway), and get reading (like you have anything better to do, you broke bum)!
THE BELLICOSE MINDS “The Bellicose Minds” EP
It was a good year for PDX gothpunk, and this EP is a just a teaser of things to come from this band. They hark back to the very early days of UK positive punk and new wave, anarchic, glammy, dark, cold, pained, and rather importantly, dancey. These kids are putting out tracks that can get you pumping anywhere from a packed basement in a punk house to that velvet and lace goth club downtown. From the delayed guitars, hypnotic drums, flourishing keys, and bleak vocal track, everything commands movement.
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