The individual is increasingly deprived of the moral decision
as to how he should live his own life
and instead is ruled, fed, clothed and educated as a social unit,
accommodated in the appropriate housing unit
and amused in accordance with the standards
that give pleasure and satisfaction to the masses.*
Standing speechless before the wheel
civil remnants of discipline
The hypocrites burst into tears
True liars stumble and fall
Everyone cries and regrets
never repent never forget
The growing urge for power gain
brings them down
begging for a quick end
The rulers, in their turn, are just as much social units as the ruled
and are distinguished only by the fact that
they are specialized mouthpieces of the State doctrine.
They do not need to be personalities capable of judgment,
but thoroughgoing specialists who are unusable outside their line of business.*
Learning the method:
From hopeless desire to eternal denial
Miracle weapon
In absolution visions die
The crushing wheel
power-fed machine
Modern man
evil cum breed
Flames burning high
to purify through pain
Masses stupefied
by the gloom of decay
The sound of regression
The sum of thousand cries
Tools of repression
The blood of innocents shines
A torture device - the human mind
Polish noise-crust outfit eschews the big Tragedy-esque riffs still popular with their US counterparts for scratchy claustrophobia. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 2, 2016
Taking inspiration from the classic Burning Spirits sound and early '80s American chaotic hardcore, this DC band is ferocious. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 21, 2018
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021
New York hardcore meets classic thrash metal meets Jane's Addiction-esque alternative on the Brooklyn crushers' sensational debut. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 13, 2023