Overpower Band Camp 7" Review...

An aptly named Overpower is the curb stomping Straight Egde hardcore band that Indianapolis has needed for quite some time. These three songs are one side of a soon to be released seven inch. And they are a four minute assault drenched in feedback, anger fueled vocals, unapologetic breakdowns, and a methodical churning of instrumentation. This is what hardcore should be; rough, assertive, direct, and bent on pushing back against the status quo. Suffer opens up the release to the caterwauling of feedback only to blast into full powerviolence mode. Once the breakdown hits Suffer swills with mid-tempo angst as the song ends in droning feedback morphing in to a two ton sludge riff. Mercy must be a conceptual hope for the next track. There is nothing merciful about this song. It's fifty two seconds of fury and feedback. The first twenty eight seconds or so are devoted to pure vitriol. As the song shifts gears the feedback signals the end with a bludgeoning of guttural vocals as the sledgehammer crashes down. XXXX is Overpower's longest and most punishing song of the three. It's a hateful piece of aural violence aimed at everyone's skull. XXXX blasts and rages as the song tightly shifts from riff to riff driving home the point: Overpower will dominate you. XXXX only slows to deliver the song's ending message: you're fucking dead. Indeed.

http://overpowerxxx.bandcamp.com/

New Casque song...

So you like your black metal drenched in depravity boosted by a fuck you punk mentality, well Casque's Heroin Dreams is your jam. Recorded by Bob Fouts (Basement Rage Studio, Chrome Waves, Apostle of Solitude, and The Gates of Slumber), this cold cacophony seethes with mid-tempo rage to furious discordance. The vocals are harsh and damaged echoing the song's perceived meaning and sentiment. The drumming is the glue holding the song just above the slum line as the the guitars scream in and out needle in hand. It's a poverty stricken track that begs Casque to continue rummaging through the slime and gutters for inspiration and wrath. As a live act Casque are pummeling. Hopefully Casque can continue to refine and channel their live sound when recorded. This is a very promising first offering from a young band looking no further than the ground beneath their feet and the grime in plain sight.

http://casqueindy.bandcamp.com/track/heroin-dreams

An Assortment of Coffinworm videos...

They don't play out of town often. They play Indianapolis and the surrounding area sparingly. And 2012's hellfire summer is nothing but a blast furnace of wretched weather bound to have people feeling charred and numb. Fuck it. Follow the green lights and Youtube your life away...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFyVjaWsfMM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMSAW_lahI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XnVZi8Byw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ5PSsrGLoE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwVl_TQsOe8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5BVf1pbjIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPB72vUFuU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWU_nzY5J6s

http://coffinworm.net/