Global Thermonuclear War: Seeking Mastery cassette

Description

Debut recording from this new group from Portland.

Our take: Shite, bassist for Rigorous Institution, runs the new label Dogs of Altamont, and their second release is this cassette from Global Thermonuclear War, a recording project that teams up Shite himself with Kyle, the drummer from Suck Lords and Crucified Class. Rigorous Institution and Suck Lords are among my favorite bands of recent years and Crucified Class is excellent too, so this pairing had me excited from the get-go. And fuck does it rule!Seeking Masterysounds 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 Kyle 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 Masteryis just a great tape, urgent, exciting, fresh, and punk as fuck.