Crawling from the smoking wreckage of several other bands (Red Stars Parade, Whores, Whores, Whores and Year of the Man) 4 individuals haul themselves up, patting out the last embers of stray fire and brushing off the coating of dust debris. False Flags have arrived and they hit hard.
Keep It Fast’s Top 10 albums of 2020
God, 2020 has been a shitshow of epic proportions. Some big hitters, familiar faces and surprises lurk in Keep It Fast’s top 10 of 2020, take a look!
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Reducer
Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are quite a favourite at Keep It Fast towers, their brand of silt-covered, … Read More
Booji Boys – Weekend Rocker
So, what do you need to know about Weekend Rocker then by these Halifax lads, the Booji Boys then? It’s brief, I mean – at 12 tracks and 27 minutes (one of those tracks being over 7 minutes long) you barely have time to gulp a mouthful of air as another song launches itself at you from a huge stack of speakers.
The Bronx – V
If one photo summed up The Bronx, it’s in underlay card on this, their fifth album. It shows vocalist and professional “bear impersonating a man” Matt Caughthran, standing in the middle of a circle pit, microphone in hand, ready to scream some immortal and terrifying word to signal the rest of his band to collapse this ring of people in on itself.
Brawlers – Romantic Errors Of Our Youth
An autobiographical streak runs through Brawlers’ sound – from the brisk story-telling of Annabel to the girl-chasing bounce of Two Minutes and the drunken bar room chant of the album’s title track, hearts are very much being held up to your face, with the bloody viscera dripping all down your front.
The Instigation – No Way Out
Punk rockers The Instigation have no off switch. Even if you tried to calm them down (holding up photos of kittens, administering some kind of knock-out gas) you’d probably be rewarded with a beer to the face, some cackling laughter and being immediately ordered to stage-dive off a stack of amps.
Besta/Englemaker – Split 7″
According to Englemaker’s facebook they “tune their guitars to C# like Master of Reality, listen exclusively to Bolt Thrower and the ZZ Top Eliminator album, and are currently planning to come and lay waste to your town.”
Mansters – II
Band – Mansters EP – II 7″ Record Label – Disiplin Media Release date – September 7 Sounds like – … Read More
Volatile Substance – Soak My Body In Gasoline. Bathe Myself In Fire
Who wants some sick hardcore jams right up in their face? Volatile Substance are four dudes from Oakland who like to play hard and fast, with the kind of blunt, pulverizing determination that you’d expect from a band who’s EP title is a statement on self-immolation.