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Defcon
4’s vocalist Dug Moore doesn’t give exactly what could be called
a heartfelt performance but he is somewhere around there. His
angryman blistering throat delivery is quite gut wrenching, real
in your face and hair raising. As this Boston band kicks The Bad
Road off with the three part “Act:1 Snake Bites Tail/Just a
Number/Ego Death” is quite obvious there is no shutting him up.
Where there is a riff, a note, a lick, that’s where he is,
possessive and obsessive taking control or leading the anarchy. Defcon 4’s sound has a very rootsy East Coast hardcore punk
sound. Some of it pays obvious debt to DRI, except these guys
are more prone to change rhythms and indulge in nasty sludge and
Moore has more aggressive pipes than Kurt Brecht (pardon the
offense) could ever dream of. So it would be logically to link
Defcon 4’s sound to Black Flag.
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Moore then is a sort of new school Henry Rollins; same approach,
ultra violent galore and also very metalized in some parts.
There are some really fast parts that could have their roots in
grindcore, but so could those roots belong to crusty crust.
Speed usually gives way to stoner rock parts, groove-laden
passages open the way for more nastiness and eventually we all
get happy when things take a down turn for the worst. Some of
the material here is as corrosive as the good work done by Steve
Austin with his very own Today is the Day. Makes sense that The
Bad Road is getting issued via Austin’s Supernova Records. Defcon 4 formed back in 2001, and their first full-length
release 2006’s File Under Fuck was produced by none other than
Steve Austin.
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