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ChaosDevin
Fantastic hardcore/powerviolence. Don't get the hate for them. I found them through Jesus Piece's similar artists. I like them more than Jesus Piece.
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colderskin
anyway saw these blokes at furnace and they tore the roof off the place. really loved their set. some hendrix-like solos, some funky ass sections. doing something else within the genre of hardcore. really exciting stuff.
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colderskin
R-Mac you somehow disabled me from replying to you and commenting on your page (lol) but I mean this seriously and not condescending - it's because your taste leans heavily toward "music made for white people"
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colderskin
it also looks like you don't really listen to or like hardcore. so, really, it's not surprising you don't resonate with this. it's not really your thing. and that's fine!
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R-Mac
As a black person, I understand what they're going for - which is this whole, "We're black and we're not going to be ignored" mixed with a "blackness is beautiful/we're more than our pain" narrative - and even though this is supposed to speak to me, it sadly just... isn't? Like, I'm not stupid, I know that black youth need to know that people who look like them can make heavy music or whatever, but I just for some reason am not rallying behind this like I think I should. I don't know. Let me sit with them a bit longer and revisit this statement later on.
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Supermundane
It's because it's pretty surface level and isn't saying much. Like I get what it's trying to do but it's very shallow and mostly just banks on the novelty that it's an all black band. Musically it's pretty whatever too, the whole grindy moshcore masquerading as powerviolence thing been done a lot, at least I've heard so many bands like that so it's not all that interesting to me. Feel like there is much better "black representation" in hardcore/metal as well (quotations because I'd imagine even that concept will vary a lot between person to person).
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R-Mac
I don't even see it as powerviolence, like, I was outside for The Acacia Strain, which is an abrasive style of metalcore, but it is NOT powerviolence. (To the commenter who said I don't like heavy music - I do, I'm also just getting old haha) But yeah. I was contemplating this in the bathroom the other day and it's sort of a Schrodinger's Black Power sort of thing.. like if by your own admission, you say that Blackness is more than trauma, suffering, and pain then - why bring it up? Shouldn't you be launching into this idea by not speaking about it and then SHOWING us how varied and nuanced Blackness is? There is a bit of experimentalism that I liked that probably could be expanded on further, and it is a very young band but like... yeah.
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Distill_Serena
I as a black person really resonate with Zulu. I have been listening to rock and heavy music since I was 11. I have never heard a hardcore band shout, sing and scream about blackness and black positivity before. Never. While I do understand the whole moshcore stuff has been done to death, has it ever really been done by a band who mixes spoken word, soul, consciousness hip-hip, and Rastafranism into their music as well? I personally think it is very hard to find a better representation of all black hardcore bands sure we have Bad Brains but there isn't a multitude of them. Also, I am not saying that just because they are black automatically means any black person has to be into them, Plus there isn't anything wrong with making music about blackness...especially when there is racism in the hardcore scene, do not think it should be written off as a novelty as it is an important thing to address and be vocal about. Their new album also does speak about blackness beyond trauma...
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ASTRAL-DOOM
You want Soul Glo for this I reckon my guy - far more nuance. My read is it's just not so new to you - the whole, aesthetic/presentation of themes. It's Public Enemy vibes executed in moshcore and, as that, it's pretty excellent.
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