One year in the making since their song on the various LP "Distort the Bay (2023 Bay Area Hardcore Punk Compilation)" with the song : "Teenage Depression". It was a great challenge for these world-renowned US musicians... And it's a success cause they have managed to churn out an excellent interesting self-released hardcore punk LP : It was well worth it!
From the looks of the photos, these are not young guys, and they’ve been around the block. Indeed, we have here David Anthony Edwardson (Bass player of Neurosis and many other bands...), Erik Thomas (Punk drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area of California for bands such as CHRONIC PLAGUE and PUBLIC ENEMA), Eric McIntire (Well known American guitarist for having played in ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT, DEFACE and NEGLECTED among others...) and Ryan Sullivan (an US guitarist and bassist from the San Francisco Bay Area of California's bands such as SAMIAM, PUBLIC ENEMA and many more...).
They know what they’re doing, and have managed to churn out a fast influenced US ’80s hardcore punk with a total catchy slight metal touch LP in 2024, even if the session is recorded in September 2023.
This is a 9-song power-paced assault 12" (45 RPM), around 25 minutes of Pro-music!
Yes, "PRO" is the word as this is still the brand of loud, potent powerthrash of ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT, Early NEUROSIS and some of the best 80's US bands of their area (San Francisco Bay), which has now become something of a prestigious seal of quality for international people dedicated. Members put the accent here is on the force and fury. Scorching...
And what about a nice surprise by listening this LP as I recognized some classic songs from the great VIOLENT COERCION : "house of terror" Demo TAPE 1985 such as "House of terror" itself, "Faith or fraud", "I'm paranoid", "Friend or enemy" (AKA "Friend of foe" on the cassette...), "Darkened lies" or "Attack without reason" (Only featuring on the 11-song version of the cassette).
I understand better now why I've been "caught at the first listening!
"PRO" is also the word about the nice packaging. The band sent me the UK version, limited to 50 copies distributed early in Europe. Thanks again for sending this one!
It has a one color flip cover, simple but total nice attractive screen-printed one. The logo is great as well...
Inside, you can find a one-sided lyrics on white paper + an 8-page photocopied booklet, also on white paper.
About the lyrics, even if English isn't my native tongue, I can say that this is about horror, politics and sociability, cool and interesting as we are expecting for this kind of stuff. Note that President TRUMP takes it for his rank on "Lock him up". No reason to forget him after REAGAN, BUSH, and the others, decades after decades... This is American hardcore punk, hue!
Regarding the booklet, it comes with a lot of old + new pictures and flyers. A lot of them are "new" for me and that's fine!
