Artist: Discharge
Album: End Of Days
Record Label: Nuclear Blast
Release Date: 28th April 2016
Sometimes it’s important to re-acquaint oneself with the
quintessential elements of a musical genre that made you fall in love with it
in the first place. It’s been eight years since renowned Hardcore veterans
Discharge last released a full-length LP, and although expectations were
reservedly high, it’s likely nobody anticipated a release quite as pulverising
as End of Days.
In the hands of most bands, 15 tracks with pretty much
nothing in the way of variation would be a slog not worth the time, but in true
Discharge fashion End Of Days is
exhilarating from start to finish. Devoid of both pretension and anything
besides the band’s deep-seated expertise, it’s full to the brim with all the
vicious anti-establishment vigour, demands for social justice and stories of
brutal warfare that you’d expect. Opener ‘New World Order’ has a scintillating
thrash-affiliation while lead-off single ‘The Broken Law’ is one of the more
outwardly melodic ragers on offer. Take into account the nihilistic electricity
of the likes of ‘Hatebomb’ and ‘Looking at Pictures of Genocide’, as well as
the skater-prone ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ and this has pretty much all the
makings of not just an essential Discharge record, but an essential reversion
to what Hardcore is all about.
8/10
Key Tracks: 'The Broken Law', 'Hatebomb', 'Looking At Pictures Of Genocide'
For Fans Of: Sick Of It All, Black Flag
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