Global Thermonuclear War: Total Demonstration 12″

Description

Global Thermonuclear War, a recording project that teams up Shite from Rigorous Institution and Karl, the drummer from Suck Lords and Crucified Class. “Seeking Mastery” sounds like something that might have come out of the late 80s UK, which makes when you think about it. Shites other band sounds a lot like Amebix, and bands like Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror adopted the metal-punk approach of bands like Amebix and Deviated Instinct, combining them with a Siege-inspired, blastbeat-heavy drummingsomething Karl showed his facility with in his other bandto creative an exciting new sound. I hear a lot of E.N.T. in particular in Global Nuclear Wars sound, partly because there arent metal guitar leads and partly because the music is just so gnarly and ugly it sounds like crawling on your knees across a bed of broken glass. And as with both Rigorous and Suck Lords music, Global Thermonuclear Wars songs are free of the obvious and the cliche. Thats true of Shites lyrics, which focus on the most fucked up aspects of todays world: factory farming, economic migration, the bloody imperialist games of nation-states the lyrics are as direct and uncompromising (though not as succinct) as Discharge, and have the plain-spoken wisdom of someone gifted with the ability to see straight through bullshit. Seeking Mastery is just a great tape, urgent, exciting, fresh, and punk as fuck.

• Label: Symphony of Destruction Records
• Format Type: 12″
• Year: 2024