A whole species, united only in perpetual alienation. Anhedonic disaffection, all we share. A wretched race, arrogantly erecting glorious spires that become our prisons, leaving us grabbing on to any shred of dignity, meaning, identity, or security. Anything to deaden the anomic entropy. The endless spiral of contempt and precarity breeds a rage that beheads kings cause those with nothing have nothing left to lose. Nothing left to lose at all.
Wow. I did not expect violin and cello from a crust band.
Wow. I did not expect crust from a band that has both a violinist and a cellist.
Wow. Nekobibu
Polish noise-crust outfit eschews the big Tragedy-esque riffs still popular with their US counterparts for scratchy claustrophobia. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 2, 2016
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Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021