HOSTILE OBJECTS - YOUNG GOD 7" REVIEW AND LIVE 7" LAUNCH

HOSTILE OBJECTS – YOUNG GOD 7”

Available on limited green vinyl, and black vinyl, both with download.

There’s no mucking around here. It’s straight into the first song Turkish Knives “Fuck yeah”, and then it’s into the blendercore of Blackened Room, and Eat Your Money on side one. Flip it over for Young God and Send in the Clowns.

This is fast, tight, melodic, unrelenting, catchy hardcore. If ya don’t like this and ya like punk/hardcore, there’s something wrong with ya. The guitar is tough and melodic, the vocals shred, the drummer plays like he’s on some good amphetamines, and the bass holds it all down.  Hailing from Sydney Australia, Hostile Objects have been around for just over a year, with members coming from many other punk and hardcore bands.

This is a well put together 7” release. Nice cover art courtesy of guitarist Jimmy, available in two colours, with good quality cardboard sleeve. There’s a lyric sheet, and limited copies come with a cloth patch. Limited copies also are available on green vinyl, with downloads also featuring  a cover of Poison Idea’s Cop an Attitude. Sound is top notch here,  thanks to vinyl mastering via Alan Douches in NYC. It’s clean, but not slick, giving a strong sound with plenty of punch, and room for everything to be heard.  Great package, and great to see 7” releases out, and it’s the best way really to hear hardcore – slapping a 7” on the turntable.
 

HOSTILE OBJECTS – Young God
Available now on Inner City Uprising.
Order 7″ / Digital online [Here].

 

 

 

HOSTILE OBJECTS 7” LAUNCH
THE GLADSTONE HOTEL 29.11.13

Hostile Objects, Throwdown, Deadly Visions, The Fuck Outs

Ya gotta love a hardcore show in a tiny, dingy, sweaty pub. First band up are The Fuck Outs, and their raucous stripped back three chord punk. Good stuff. Just guitar, bass, drums, and a singer called Trouble whose wearing a pink denim sleeveless jacket. Next up are Deadly Visions with their straight edge inspired hardcore. These guys put in a very energetic set which was lapped up by the two arm – windmilling blokes up front. Long standing five piece hardcore vets Throwdown are third up. Their set is tight and catchy as fuck and includes a cover of Suicidal Tendencies Fascist Pig, and closes with a cover of Ace of Spades, both of which they make their own.

Tonight belongs to Hostile Objects and they own the stage. The PA sound has been patchy all night, and fortunately improves when sonic thrashers Hostile Objects come on to playing their furious hardcore in the vein of Black Flag and Poison Idea (whose Cop an Attitude they cover). Launching their new 7” Young God, they play all the songs off it “not in any particular order” says singer Rod. Guitarist Jimmy throttles his clear Perspex guitar over the pummelling rythym section of bassist Luke and drummer Grant, and Rod’s shredded throat. This is great old school hardcore, and they don’t let up for the enitirety of their 45 minute set.  Great bands, great gig.

 

 

 

 

MOTORHEAD - AFTERSHOCK 180gram vinyl REVIEW

 

Motorhead have a good history with vinyl – Great artwork, inner sleeves, and usually, a decent sound. There is also seemingly an ever increasing abundance of Motorhead vinyl reissues from all eras, on varying formats and labels.

Aftershock  is well suited to the vinyl format, it’s almost made for it and is almost tailored for a vinyl issue.  Everything is well done to a high standard and works well here – art, package, and sound.  It’s one of those records that although it’s a singular entity, works being split into two sides. The running order of songs works with this, and each side is demarcated by the tracks being numbered from 1 to 7, as opposed to side two commencing at number 8.  It works  well either playing it from start to finish, or playing one side at a time. It doesn’t lose momentum; although each track is separated, there’s minimal silence between the grooves, and each songs segues into the next.

The cover is well done; it comes in nice heavy cardboard with a gatefold sleeve. The classic warpig artwork is of course intact. The inside cover features a nice big picture of Lemmy and the boys, with Lemmy  (in his army regalia) cleverly centre and right to avoid the gatefold spine cleaving him in half. The inner lyric sleeve and gatefold cover are a fringe benefit of vinyl, but again it all really suits Motorhead, and Aftermath.

The record itself 180gram vinyl, yielding a great sound.  Although my copy came ever so slightly warped, there’s no hindrance to the sound at all. Production is courtesy of Cameron Webb, who’s been with them for the last 4 albums, and has given Motorhead a slightly revamped sound which is evident. It’s thunderous, as you’d expect, and the mastering to vinyl has worked well, the freight train sound is undamaged, and you can hear all the elements of the engine hammering away in there. As Lemmy himself says of the vinyl issue of Aftermath “it sounds fuckin’ amazing”, and he’s right.

As for the album itself, and what’s in the grooves of the record; well it’s Motorhead.............. For my ears there’s a groove on Aftermath that perhaps wasn’t as evident  on the last Motorhead release The World is Yours. It’s classic Motorhead, there are Motorhead hallmarks that are used to good effect  - your’e reminded of previous albums without them just being rehashed. It’s simply another fucking good Motorhead album, and it stayed on the turntable for quite a few days.

Opening with a couple of the faster songs, Heartbreaker, and Coup De Grace, it slows up momentarily with Lost Woman Blues, which actually gives a bit of space and breadth to the album. I thought I might be tempted to perhaps skip this one, but haven’t – it rocks in its own way. It’s back to business with End of Time and Death Machine.  Dust and Glass also slows the pace again and concludes side one perfectly.

Turning over for Side Two, we have another faster one, Going to Mexico, and Silence when you speak to me fire off the opening salvo. Queen of the Damned is the punk-est song on the album, and a highlight for me. Things barrel along nicely with Knife, Keep your powder dry, and the momentum keeps going with the closing track Paralyzed.

If your’e a Motorhead fan, there’s no reason not to get this. If your’e not a Motorhead fan, there’s no reason not to get this record.