HOAX self-titled LP

HOAX self-titled LP

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(Hoax Records)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Absolutely vicious, ultra-distorted hardcore. This is the latest album from this Massachusetts band, who I had previously heard on their killer 7" EP that came out on Deranged a couple of years ago. Playing a crazed, nihilistic strain of hardcore punk and featuring some of the members of the equally killer mutant hardcore band SQRM, Hoax blew me away on that 7", and while I haven't been able to get any of their other records before now (their stuff has had a tendency to go out of print rather quickly), their first (and possibly last?) full-length delivers twelve new songs of their blown-out, barbaric punk that I've been waiting for.
   A cough, a grunt, and "Intro" kicks in with a fluttery, gut-churning bass drone and rhythmic metallic clank, courtesy of NY death industrialist Pharmakon, who opens Hoax's swan song with a brief but bludgeoning industrial noisescape. That's over pretty quickly though, and from there the band proceeds to rampage through the remaining tracks of blown-out, buzzsaw hardcore, the singer's hoarse, bestial scream almost overwhelmed by the band's violent, low-fi assault. The songs are constructed around a classic hardcore template, simple four chord riffs and pounding adrenaline-fueled tempos, but Hoax mutates that sound into something even more diabolical, bursting into shrieking heavy metal guitar solos, the distortion cranked into fucking vicious levels of saturated ear-hate, dropping savage slower breakdowns into the middle of songs like hand grenades. At times, this stuff hits me like a noisier, bestial version of Black Flag or Negative Approach, but I definitely don't get any sort of "throwback", retro vibe off of this band. The guitar tone is awesome, all grimy and grinding and massively distorted, almost more like the chainsaw growl of a death metal guitarist than anything, but the riffs are straight-forward hardcore, and are aggressive and anthemic; the riff on "Destroy" alone makes me want to tear the walls down. I kept getting reminded of the filthy, fucked-up, violent aggression and unabashed metallic crunch of a band like Gehenna while I was listening to this, and this has got to be one of the most ferocious hardcore albums to come through the C-Blast shop this year. Anyone into ferocious, fucked-up hardcore punk should pick this up pronto, as it's one of the sickest records I've been listening to lately, a sound which I had previously described in my review of the 7" as "the maniacal hardcore of Void and Negative Approach combined with the blown-out violence of Bone Awl...".
   The packaging is fantastic, too. The record comes with a set of six big foldout posters printed on both sides, each one featuring a different artist, the crazed artwork ranging from depictions of the skyline of Los Angeles as an apocalyptic hellzone, scenes of demonic flagellation, bizarre Mike Diana-esque torture rituals, twisted collages, hallucinatory monstrosities, self-mutilation, and weird Ed Roth homage.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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