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Revenge- Paper Cage 7” review
I usually hate grindcore. This is vegan, straight edge, queer, feminist
grindcore. Well, this review isn’t
starting off well. If you’ve decided to
keep reading, you’re either really open minded, brave, or masochistic, and for
that, I must commend you. Music-wise,
this is actually pretty high-quality.
The slow parts here are fucking brutal with the crunching bass and
thundering drums, and the fast parts blast and shred away with the high-pitched
guitar and extremely shrill singer (which is the biggest, but the only
noticeable downside to this EP). The
lyrics are well-written and intelligent, but they are very difficult to
discern by ear only, as per most grindcore.
However, this is more intelligent, refined, dare I say higher quality
grindcore- this stands for something, and the band truly lives up to the DIY
name (they played a fucking Laundromat- how punk is that!?). For that, much respect. I still don’t like grindcore, and these songs
are higher-echelon for that genre- points for seriousness, honesty, and being
good at what they do. However, the
vocals will never cease to bother me.
That, however, isn’t their fault.
For grinders, buy or die. Punks
who don’t like grind, give it a stream online first.
-Aunty Social
