Raw, brutal hardcore straight outta Arkansas!
Welcome, everybody, to the latest example of a bunch of veterans teaching the young guns a thing or two. Burned Up Bled Dry hail from Fayetteville, Arkansas, and originally formed in the 1990s before going on hiatus, but they’re back now with this debut album – one that packs a whopping 26 tracks into only 25 minutes.
As you can probably imagine, for the most part, ‘Next Stop…Dead Stop…’ is a fast and furious affair, on which the band combine raw, 80s-style hardcore punk with a touch of power violence and a wonderfully bleak lyrical outlook. Opening track ‘Harsh Reality’ damn near had our teeth rattling with its almost grindcore-level intensity, and indeed, some of the shorter tracks (including the 6-second ‘Pig Trough’) recall the likes of Napalm Death and their aural equivalent of a flamethrower.
Songs like the title track (complete with “this planet is a fucking trainwreck’ refrain) and ‘Not This Time’ are slices of vintage hardcore, with some great guitar riffing and gravel-throated vocals, but there’s an unexpected plot twist in the form of the almost four-minute centrepiece of ‘Don’t Care’. Built mostly around slow, monolithic guitars, it progresses at an almost funereal pace, and is at times reminiscent of Deftones or even Converge at their most brooding. It’s just as compelling as anything else on this record, and shows a side of the band worth further exploration.
As the screeching guitars of the closing ‘No Escape’ end somewhat abruptly, it’s clear that the band’s love of playing music trumps their dismay at the state of the world. This planet may indeed be a fucking trainwreck, but Burned Up Bled Dry have channelled their rage well, and on ‘Next Stop…Dead Stop…’, they’re brimming with fire and vitality. Keep going, guys – there’s plenty of life left in you, even after all these years.
‘Next Stop…Dead Stop…’ is released on 27th March via Prank Records – pre-order it HERE.
All Photos: KELLY KIDD / Video: PLUM JAY
- Harsh Reality
- Drawing Board
- Live For Now
- Next Stop…Dead Stop…
- Razors
- Not This Time
- New Reality Of Distance
- Under A Lens
- Translucent Mask
- Black Ice
- Don’t Care
- Not Your Nightmare
- Unseen Warfare
- Bullshit In Bullshit Out
- Division Street
- Living To Rot
- Unring That Bell
- It Didn’t Go Away
- Holding Nothing
- In The Other Hand
- Death Shadows
- Future Of Intangibles
- Death Ruse
- Polarized Paralyzed
- Pig Trough
- No Escape
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