Where they from?
Edinburgh, U.K. Major League Baseball starts this week in the U.S. and I guess I should make some sort of prediction? Did I do that already? Well I guess I’ll just say the Astros win it all again and probably beat like the Padres or some other moribund NL franchise in the World Series. Baseball season is so long, who knows if we’ll even have clean drinking water seven months from now.
Why the hype?
The U.K. has pretty much supplanted itself as the foremost purveyor of powerviolence that is both madcap, silly and ferocious. Endless Swarm is no exception to this rule, though with this latest album they have definitely added some more metallic precision, specifically with the tightness of the drumming and the implementation of the occasional ass-beater thrash riff.
Latest Release?
Manifested Forms, out in the U.S on To Live a Lie Records. Even though Edinburgh is pretty fuckin’ far from Leeds I can probably guarantee you that someone in this record was either in Afternoon Gentlemen, Ona Snop or Gets Worse at some point. And if none of those then definitely Lugibrious Children. And if not them, then definitely Gendo Ikari. Now I’m just naming U.K. bands. Sorry for all the inside baseball everyone, just getting in the spirit!
