Showing posts with label *Retox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label *Retox. Show all posts

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Retox - 2011 Ugly Animals


Band : Retox
Album : Ugly Animals
Release Year : 2011
Genre : Power Violence | Hardcore

Tracklist :
1. The World Is Ending And It's About Time
2. Thirty Cents Shy Of A Quarter
3. A Bastard On Father's Day
4. A Funeral On Christmas Sunday
5. Stick A Fork In It
6. Cement Sucking
7. Boredom Is Counter-revolutionary
8. Ten Pounds Of Shit In A Five Pound Bag
9. A Captive Audience
10. Sorry We Are Just Not Compatible
11. Piss Elegant

All that matters in the grand scheme of things is the band is not directly comparable to what has come before them. But if we must:
RETOX is an outcome of stagnant and boring western culture, as well as the self-proclaimed counterculture, which has slipped into a sea of pointlessness. The band manages to detach themselves from what one might consider a promotional paragraph trying to explain what is not really important to the band themselves; such as a list of influences—they are influenced by much more than music, but more so by the world at large. The band has no goal for what the future holds.

Sonically, the band’s crude and primitive aspects make sense in this day and age. The band is a reaction to the world that the members and their comrades have lived in: shitty childhoods, bureaucratic frustration, and the overall justification of continuous war. That sensibility coupled with a modern artistic delivery, the music is educated as well as furious, and most importantly, blurring genre lines of punk, hardcore, thrash, metal and whatever else seems fitting to the critics. RETOX features members of some grand dick sucking accomplishments, acts such as The Locust, Head Wound City, Holy Molar, All Leather, Some Girls, Swing Kids, Le Butcherettes, Cattle Decapitation, Struggle, The Festival of Dead Deer, and The Crimson Curse.


Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Retox - 2010 Retox EP


Band : Retox
Album : Retox EP
Release Year : 2010
Genre : Power Violence / Mathcore

Tracklist :
1. Ready To Spit
2. I Rub The Wrong Way
3. We hang By Our Eyelids
4. Unpleasant Food
5. Rusty Sheriff’s Badge
6. Go Ahead And Rescue
7. Put Some Hair On It
8. Piss Elegant

There is a relationship between society and the music it creates. Where it’s simply music, and not a revolution, it is a revolutionary tool. More importantly, music is an effective form of communication and a means of emotional expression. A stern “fuck you” to the powers that be is an obvious reaction to modern times. Retox is that reaction to stagnant and boring cultures, as well as the countercultures that have slipped into a sea of pointlessness. The band is a reaction to the world that the members and their comrades live in: lives littered with frustration; lives soaked in violence. Featuring members of acts such as The Locust, Head Wound City, Holy Molar, All Leather, Some Girls, and The Festival of Dead Deer. With violent music, as with Retox, there is no choice but to retoxify.

Dishing out powerviolence influenced mathcore on their self-titled EP. “Ready to spit” opens up the album with a barrage of drums and guitar hammer-ons much akin to Daughters’ Canada Songs. And with 8 songs totally just over 7 minutes, you know what you’re in for from the first track. Botch stylized tempos, These Arms are Snakes guitars, and nonstandard chord uses like the Blood Brothers are riddled throughout. The lyrics are from the same dark resides of the mind that this auditory aggression comes from.