Excessive Cruelty: S/T 12″

Description

Excessive Cruelty is a new band featuring key players from the Bay AreasStrung Up, who were simultaneously one of the best-regarded and most underrated bands of the explosion of early 80s-style US hardcore in the early 2000s. If youre smart enough to be familiar with Strung Ups catalog (and if youre not do your homework!), youll be pleased to know that the blisteringly fast rhythms, complex riffing, gruff vocals and literate, socially aware lyrics are still very much present in Excessive Crueltys sound. You can also hear a touch of thrash and crossover influence herewhich makes sense given that guitarist Dan Randall spent many of the intervening years since Strung Up disbandedplaying in Ghoulbut like Dealing with It-era DRI or American Paranoia-era Attitude Adjustment, this is hardcore with metallic elements and not the other way around. Any way you slice it, though, this 12 delivers 6 blistering dispatches of pure rage and energy.

Full-color jacket with a cover illustration by Digestor of Ghoul, and the vinyl is a 1-sided 12 with ascreen printed b-side.