Worshipping japanese hardcore since the day before yesterday!
As the title has already let you know, this LP compiles two of Warhead’s releases; この想いを何処へ (maybe: where to put that feeling??!?), a mini album from 1993 and The Lost Self And Beating Heart from 1996. I guess I won’t have to describe Warhead’s sound anymore, so I’ll just say that both releases are absolutely wild, insane and great.
No long introductions, no frills, no unnecessary words: this album from 2014 by Kyōto’s Warhead is pure japanese hardcore insanity. The best possible soundtrack to „This World Of Confusion“! Because: fuck this world. Especially right now.
I don’t think Kyoto’s absolute hardcore monsters Warhead really need any introduction; OrdER are another of those long running bands who had a revolving door of former band members (did I use that metaphor correctly? Fuck it.) over their years. Warhead’s song is an overdriven mid-tempo stomper, while OrdER’s Space Junk is catchy and driving with a little ecclecticist weirdness thrown in.
Sorry, but I just can’t come up with a better description today.
To me, bands covering each other usually amounts to not much more than gimmicky, novelty releases. Boy, does this 7“ here prove me wrong! It’s hard to decide, which band pays better tribute to the other: Warhead going full overdriven crazy on Tetsu Arei’s heavy, Burning Spirits hardcore, or Tetsu Arei infusing Warhead’s insanity with their totally in control heavyness. Still, the winner to me is Warhead’s Under The Moonlight as played by Tetsu Arei. Incredibly good!
Of the bands on this compilation, the glue sniffers of Warhead are definitely the winners. Even their mid-tempo songs are absolutely over the top, manic hardcore insanity with a totally crazy singer. Extinct Government are another all-star group with members of Tetsu Arei, The Comes, Lipcream, Idora and Crück. They are more on the punky side of hardcore and even play a cover of No Desire by Switzerland’s Jack & The Rippers, which was originally released in 1979! On Side B Zone speed things up again with some fast and tight hardcore, which sadly doesn’t reach the level of Warhead’s insanity. D.S.B. are a lot dirtier again, but I prefer their 7″es to these compilation tracks.
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