Grind-y straight edge hardcore. I first discovered Monster X back in high school via their split with Spazz, when I was still young enough to be blown away by the mere existence of guttural vocals. Rediscovered a few years back while re-organizing my records, and shit, those gutturals still rule. They're more expected over the grind parts, but there's a really cool dissonance to hearing them over more traditional hardcore. Great band.
Also, I stopped drinking recently -- didn't really 'quit' so much as noticed that I wasn't drinking anymore and decided to embrace it -- so if you don't count my prescription speed or my openness to microdosing psilocybin every now and then, it's almost like I'm straight edge, too.
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Thanks man!
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ReplyDeleteSick! I bought their "Attrition" 7 in. for two bucks last month. Went on a deep dive of what was left of the True Punk & Metal blog that was run by the singer. Definitely listened to in high school as well, but hadn't thought about them for a while.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably my favorite subgenre of extreme music- grindy hardcore stuff, especially from the 90s and early aughts. Perhaps not your wheelhouse, but you seem to have a bottomless well of obscure bands to offer. Can you recommend me some obscure records that might fall into this category? Thanks so much.
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