5IVE
Hesperus
(Hydra Head)

UFOMAMMUT
Idolum
(Supernatural Cat)

MACHINIST
S/T
(Debello)

HEX MACHINE
Run to Earth
(Molsook)

CORPUS CHRISTII
Rising
(Moribund)

MUTE THE SILENCE
Cursed With Ambition 

(Venerate Industries)

SADAHARU
Resist.Revolt.Reclaim

(CI)

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There are a few things I would like to do to this record. I am not going to enumerate them all because there is no point nor time for that. But topping my list of ‘things I would like to change about Resist. Revolt.Reclaim’ would be to remix it in such a way that the vocals get drowned to oblivion. I’d tweak the knobs so much Sadaharu would pass to be an instrumental band, and a pretty kick ass one at that.  Such is the devastating effect that this obnoxious as all fuck of vocals have on the record.  It is not only the screechy tone, but the ‘cat in pain’ fashion with which the vocalist screams or deadpans every political line lacks so much soul this is bound to inspire not a revolution but a little bit of puke inside the mouth. I have listened to Resist. Revolt. Reclaim in three different stereos and I gotta tell you, when I played it in my car this shit was unlistenable. I was annoyed within a minute, and my decision had been laid out in my eardrums in such an unquestionable manner I wondered if the heap of praise that’s received this record belonged to the same recording I was now trying to enjoy. And when I listened to it at home, the music was sometimes good but the vocals were still beyond obnoxious.

Taking only the music into account, Sadaharu kind of rock.  Resist. Revolt. Reclaim has many facets. Obviously, first up is the energetic punk rock, which has been vastly influenced by  both the rage of Refused and, on a more subdued manner, the 60’s throwback revoltism of the International Noise Conspiracy. For a sample of this listen to the buried keyboard work in “The Devil is in the Details (Or Clearly You Have Been Lacking the Desired Level of Perception)”.  And I mean, did they come up with this title with reviewers in mind? Other long boring titles include “This is Less of a Protest of What is, Than a Celebration of What’s to Come” and “The Diagnosis is a More Than Slight Case of Stockholm Syndrome”.

Sadaharu also make frequent use of hand claps, some boogie friendly riffs and a few borrowed riffs from QOTSA at the beginning of “A Change to the Status Quo is Not Only Long Overdue But Requisite”.  On the upside, this third full length has some spastic spurs of brilliance, and a couple of flashing seconds of violent eloquence that could easily silence the most political or apolitical band. But that’s about it. Do something about the vocals. You don’t have to know how to sing, but whatever you do you have to do it well.

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