Demo 2012
Track listing:
1. Intro//Here To Stay
2. Don't Need Your Help
3. Us Against You
4. United We Stand
“I won’t play your games. I don’t need your help.”
Hardcore can, at times, be guilty of letting itself get way
too fancy.
It can be exciting to hear some band take shit in
interesting, genre expanding directions. Once in a while, I like a “hardcore”
record I can play for normal people without them looking at me like I just
pissed on their couch. Most of the time though, I go to hardcore looking for
fast, ugly aggression. That’s what it’s there for.
Which brings me to this demo tape by Ontario’s Demolition.
This thing delivers 4 tracks
(well… 4 and a half. There’s an intro) of straight up HC punk in just
over 5 minutes. It plows through its run
time pretty quick, but changes it up enough that you can tell the songs apart.
Generally, Demolition keep up the pace but have enough slow, stompy parts to
get your head nodding. With the right crowd, I could see this being a lot of
fun live.
Lyrics-wise, Demolition sticks to the hardcore standards.
Generally revolving around not taking a bunch of shit off of anyone. It’s all
delivered via a solid, if unremarkable vocalist whose name I don’t know because
the tape doesn’t have credits.
I always have a hard time pegging influences for bands like
this. It just reminds me of OLD hardcore records. Do you like old hardcore
records? Specifically, old East Coast hardcore records. Fast, pissed… no metal
or whatever the fuck else? Then this is up your alley.
It ain’t pretty. It ain’t slick. It’s 5 and change minutes
of angry kids venting spleen. If that
shit was ever gonna get old, it would have by now.
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