Ex-Dom: Demo 2021 cassette

Description

Bremen’s Ex-Dom plays menacing punk for menacing punks. This international band dropped their multi-lingual demo last summer, and it instantly became one of the best releases of 2021. The cassette opens with some of the most eerie sounds ever recorded before bursting into 7 tracks of gnarly, hard-hitting hardcore sung in both Spanish and German. Luckily, the physical copy of this release repeats the program on both sides, leaving listeners with the ability to get trapped in a beautiful, endless loop of some of the best hardcore ever released.

Our take: Ex-Dom is a multi-national band based in Bremen, Germany, with vocals alternate between German and Spanish. Those are two languages I dont know, so I found the track listing confusing before I realized what was going on. No matter how many of the lyrics you understand, though, its hard to deny this is an explosive demo tape. Ex-Doms rhythms have an energetic pogo bounce, but the production is noisy and nasty, with the tightly wound intensity of fast, Discharge-influenced hardcore. The stylistic mix is a bit like Blazing Eye, but faster and noisier. Rather than the particular mix of styles, though, what stands out about this tape is the crazy high energy level. An excellent demo.