A near-perfect mix of lyrical rage and musical brutality!
Subtlety be damned. Sometimes you want music to hit you with all the force of a jet-fuelled runaway freight train (well, something like that), so it’s pretty handy that London-based quartet Emergency Broadcast have shown up on our radar with this short but brutally effective EP of metallic hardcore.
In the words of the band, it’s for “those whose voices go unheard, whose rights are stolen, and those who have lost hope. It’s for human and non-human animals, for nature, and for the future we fight.” Yep, if you just want standard tough-guy mosh fuel, then best look elsewhere.
Things kick off slow and super-heavy with the minute-long ‘Life For The Dead’, which segues into the EP’s grinding title track. There’s a beast of a riff and a brutal breakdown in there; coupled with vocalist Mel’s high-pitched yell, it sounds seriously foreboding – and neither we nor they would have it any other way.
They kick things up a pace for ‘Disobey’, a full-tilt anti-authoritarian hardcore punk rager with another colossal breakdown, and throw plenty of thrashy riff action into the mix on ‘Countdown To Extinction’ and the closing ‘Drowning Dog’, managing to encapsulate pretty much everything that’s great about hardcore in the process. Oh, and we love the latter’s ominous, melancholic instrumental outro, too.
Make no mistake, this is the work of a band to believe in, and at only 11 minutes long, it’s left us hungry for more. It should sound even better live; find out for yourself at the band’s upcoming London dates at the New Cross Inn (February 22nd) or Moor Beer Vaults (April 4th).
- Life For The Dead
- Make Them Pay
- Disobey
- Countdown To Extinction
- Drowning Dog
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