Your new favourite hardcore band? Trust us, Cash Bribe won't let you down.
YES! This, my friends, is hardcore as it ought to be; raw, filthy, and bursting with righteous anger. ‘Demonomics’ is the follow-up to 2023’s excellent ‘Escape From New York’, and it sees the NYC-based quartet sounding fiercer than ever. Lyrically, it takes aim at “the crushing grip of the billionaire class and the systems designed to keep the rest of us complacent.” Well, it couldn’t be a more timely critique, and goodness knows Cash Bribe have the musical muscle to back it up.
Opening track ‘Feral’ is exactly that; one and a half minutes of brutally fast powerviolence, with all the speed, heaviness and subtlety of a runaway bullet train. ‘Bay Of Pigs’ is just awesome; a raw, invigorating blast of hardcore punk, infused with a touch of rock n’ roll swagger and even a killer guitar solo towards the end. Trust us, your pulse should already be racing by this point.
From then on, Cash Bribe really bring the NYHC crunch to proceedings. ‘Death Tax’ is one of the bounciest hardcore tracks we’ve heard in a while, replete with a beast of a riff and the kind of gang vocals that will have you down the front trying to grab the microphone. They speed up again for the four-minute (!) title track; that’s an eternity in hardcore, but they don’t waste a second, and that riff-heavy breakdown at the end….oooooh, it hits the spot.
‘Faith Aversion’ is pretty much an amalgamation of what’s gone before (i.e. everything that makes hardcore great), and it all comes to a close with ‘10%’, which boasts an utterly EVIL-sounding breakdown – the kind that will surely have all but the most seasoned pit warriors running for cover as soon as that sinister down-tuned bass line kicks in. A great end to seventeen life-affirming minutes of hardcore.
Message to the band: guys, please get yourselves over to the UK as soon as possible; we’ve got a few venues that need to be turned upside down, and we have the feeling you’re the perfect men for the job. In the meantime, we’ll be blasting ‘Demonomics’ seriously loud.
Demonomics is available for pre-order HERE and is released on the 13th June via Futureless Records.
- Feral
- Bay Of Pigs
- Death Tax
- Demonomics
- Faith Aversion
- 10%
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