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Most
hardcore music is pretty hideous. In these imaginary
pages I’ve already bitched about it enough, so I will
only say that every time I see a beefy meathead with a
crew cut I think of hardcore. And every time that
happens I like hardcore music a little less.
The
self titled debut of Swedish hardcore band Outrageous
comes issued by seven labels. I can only imagine the
headache that it must have been to put this together.
This fact also makes me think that perhaps, all these
labels, meaning all these people wanted to be involved
with this band because they saw something unique in
Outrageous. If not
unique, at least some talent.
And yeah,
there is nothing unique about this, but there is certainly quite
a bit of talent. Outrageous hits the spot by making tunes that
are just as violent as anything Agnostic Front ever wrote, but
also puts that little extra melodious undercurrent that’s only
obvious past the first listen. It’s clever. The guitars
especially, totally do more than what one may appreciate upon a
shallow spin. You got to pay attention to the riffs, to those
hidden notes that are fast and sharp but also saccharine helps.
The vocals are your typical hardcore dude ripping his vocal
chords into shreds by issuing threats of disappointment and
whatever else. So nothing new there.
Outrageous
also scores points but keeping things short. You can never
underestimate the power and the effectiveness of brevity. This
is only an EP, but at seven songs clocking under 20 minutes we
are talking about an average length of two and a half minutes.
To that, add the upbeat violent nature of the songs and it seems
like the EP is over before you’ve been floored by a kick in the
face from some idiot doing the windmill.
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