Cruelty Bomb: demo cassette

Description

New band from East 7th Punx / Blazing Eye members. An homage to Asocial, Bombanfall, Anti-Cimex, etc with wild drumming/fills.

Our take: Debut 5-track demo from this LA d-beat band featuring members of Blazing Eye. It can be hard to get excited about d-beat these days, but Cruelty Bomb will turn even the most jaded head. Its tough to say what elevates the band on the surface, these are just four super fast, Cimex / Shitlickers-style rippers with a mid-paced pit-clearer to close things out, but theyre so energetic and well-executed that you cant deny their power. A lot of that, Im sure, is down to the recording, which (like Blazing Eyes recordings) finds the perfect balance of rawness, clarity, and aggression. The mix sounds like its pushed into the red, like your speakers are straining, but you can still hear every instrument, even every drum, playing its essential role on these tracks. Whatever undefinable quality it is that separates a face-melting hardcore recording from another run-of-the-billgood release, this thing has it.