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CHISEL, THE	Retaliation	Cassette	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 247CS
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/17/2021 Cassette version. It's going off and The Chisel are back to cause a bit of bovver. Following a trio of explosive singles, the band finally bring us their debut full-length album, Retaliation, on the London-based punk institution La Vida Es Un Mus. Having formed in early 2020 and featuring a crew of members with long-term associations to the London punk scene, The Chisel quickly secured a reputation as one of the most exciting bands from a pool of contemporaries that includes Chubby & The Gang, Stingray and Big Cheese. Their sound is rooted firmly in punk but with influences that run across the board to create a distinctive blend of Oi!, anarcho, UK-82 and hardcore. Retaliation is an unmistakably British record that draws a line from 1982 up to the present day, pushing its way into your collection and torching your stereo. Opening with the agitated force of "Unlawful Execution", the tone is firmly set by a song that addresses the brutality of the Met Police. "Come See Me" is a ferocious ode to camaraderie in the face of mouthy boneheads and bell ends. "Shit Life Syndrome" is a poisoned reference to the same cynical phrase used by physicians to describe the effects of people living under poverty and in the grips of substance abuse. It's one of many songs influenced by singer Cal's experiences of growing up in the working-class town of Blackpool. With tunes like these The Chisel show that they'll never pull any punches. However, beyond the fury and the swagger there's another side that plays to an additional strength; the ability to write a memorable hook. Songs like "Retaliation", "Tooth & Nail" and "Not The Only One" could be described as modern day anthems (the latter has become a fan favorite since the arrival of their first live shows) and cement their identity as a band not to be defined by their influences. Retaliation is 14 tracks of dance floor-stomping-working class Chisel-music. Here and now, The Year of The Chisel. Recorded by Jonah Falco at Total Refreshment Centre, London, March 2021. Mixed by James Atkinson at the Stationhouse in Leeds. Mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory. Cover painting by Tara Atefi.

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CHISEL, THE	Retaliation	CD	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 247CD
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/17/2021 It's going off and The Chisel are back to cause a bit of bovver. Following a trio of explosive singles, the band finally bring us their debut full-length album, Retaliation, on the London-based punk institution La Vida Es Un Mus. Having formed in early 2020 and featuring a crew of members with long-term associations to the London punk scene, The Chisel quickly secured a reputation as one of the most exciting bands from a pool of contemporaries that includes Chubby & The Gang, Stingray and Big Cheese. Their sound is rooted firmly in punk but with influences that run across the board to create a distinctive blend of Oi!, anarcho, UK-82 and hardcore. Retaliation is an unmistakably British record that draws a line from 1982 up to the present day, pushing its way into your collection and torching your stereo. Opening with the agitated force of "Unlawful Execution", the tone is firmly set by a song that addresses the brutality of the Met Police. "Come See Me" is a ferocious ode to camaraderie in the face of mouthy boneheads and bell ends. "Shit Life Syndrome" is a poisoned reference to the same cynical phrase used by physicians to describe the effects of people living under poverty and in the grips of substance abuse. It's one of many songs influenced by singer Cal's experiences of growing up in the working-class town of Blackpool. With tunes like these The Chisel show that they'll never pull any punches. However, beyond the fury and the swagger there's another side that plays to an additional strength; the ability to write a memorable hook. Songs like "Retaliation", "Tooth & Nail" and "Not The Only One" could be described as modern day anthems (the latter has become a fan favorite since the arrival of their first live shows) and cement their identity as a band not to be defined by their influences. Retaliation is 14 tracks of dance floor-stomping-working class Chisel-music. Here and now, The Year of The Chisel. Recorded by Jonah Falco at Total Refreshment Centre, London, March 2021. Mixed by James Atkinson at the Stationhouse in Leeds. Mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory. Cover painting by Tara Atefi.

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CHISEL, THE	Retaliation	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 247LP
$30.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/17/2021 LP version. It's going off and The Chisel are back to cause a bit of bovver. Following a trio of explosive singles, the band finally bring us their debut full-length album, Retaliation, on the London-based punk institution La Vida Es Un Mus. Having formed in early 2020 and featuring a crew of members with long-term associations to the London punk scene, The Chisel quickly secured a reputation as one of the most exciting bands from a pool of contemporaries that includes Chubby & The Gang, Stingray and Big Cheese. Their sound is rooted firmly in punk but with influences that run across the board to create a distinctive blend of Oi!, anarcho, UK-82 and hardcore. Retaliation is an unmistakably British record that draws a line from 1982 up to the present day, pushing its way into your collection and torching your stereo. Opening with the agitated force of "Unlawful Execution", the tone is firmly set by a song that addresses the brutality of the Met Police. "Come See Me" is a ferocious ode to camaraderie in the face of mouthy boneheads and bell ends. "Shit Life Syndrome" is a poisoned reference to the same cynical phrase used by physicians to describe the effects of people living under poverty and in the grips of substance abuse. It's one of many songs influenced by singer Cal's experiences of growing up in the working-class town of Blackpool. With tunes like these The Chisel show that they'll never pull any punches. However, beyond the fury and the swagger there's another side that plays to an additional strength; the ability to write a memorable hook. Songs like "Retaliation", "Tooth & Nail" and "Not The Only One" could be described as modern day anthems (the latter has become a fan favorite since the arrival of their first live shows) and cement their identity as a band not to be defined by their influences. Retaliation is 14 tracks of dance floor-stomping-working class Chisel-music. Here and now, The Year of The Chisel. Recorded by Jonah Falco at Total Refreshment Centre, London, March 2021. Mixed by James Atkinson at the Stationhouse in Leeds. Mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory. Cover painting by Tara Atefi.

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QUARANTINE	Agony	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 246LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 Breakneck audio level destruction from Quarantine on their first full-length release, Agony. The demo was a glimmer of perfected USHC pastiche but Agony pushes the limits of aggression to some kind of land speed no man's land where United Mutation, Gudon, and My America by FU's are firing live ammunition into each other's boomboxes in a bid for hardcore punk long play supremacy. Instant classic from a group of utterly blue-chip musicians on the label that can't be beat.

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STRAW MAN ARMY	Age Of Exile	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	DM4T 001LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 "I've lost track of how many times I've listened to Age Of Exile in the past few weeks. I got a preview before it came out and on the first listen, I was hooked. My first impression was that it sounded like Kaleidoscope (with whom Straw Man Army shares members), but it's reaching toward something more like the song-oriented anarcho punk of Zounds and Crisis. I've been playing this record into the ground in the subsequent weeks, though, and there's so much more to hear than a simple 'this kinda sounds like this' comparison. One thing Straw Man Army shares with Kaleidoscope is a sense of rhythmic sophistication and inventiveness. We expect that a neo-anarcho band will have some interesting marching band snare patterns, but there's so much more to the tracks on Age Of Exile. Every song has a unique groove (or rather several of them, frequently overlapping), giving the album a sense of scope and breadth far beyond most contemporary punk records. And then there's the sense of melody, which is equally sophisticated. While the interwoven rhythms make each song seem like a dense tapestry, the guitar melodies have a sense of sweetness and directness that makes Straw Man Army seem approachable and human. And then there are the lyrics, which I haven't been able to dig into thoroughly, but are as dense, poetic, and vibrant as the music, focusing on how to live in the rubble of empire. Age Of Exile is a striking album no matter which aspect of it you focus on, and it's so distinctive and consuming that I can already tell it's going to be a big part of the soundtrack to this part of my life." --Sorry State

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UNIDAD IDEOLOGICA	Unidad Ideologica	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 240LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 Bogotá's Unidad Ideológica sound is pure high intensity hardcore. The eight songs on their debut 12" clock in below 15 minutes and not a single second is wasted. Their sound is very bass and drum driven, full of breakneck, pummeling relentless beats which do not rest for a second, setting a claustrophobic atmosphere for the noise to grow. Feedback-ladden guitars at times verge on BM, which brings Raw Power, Execute, Gism and Disarm to mind, creating the perfect background for a raging vocalist full of venom to sing about fear, control, technology, and the rampant neoliberalism destroying their land and literally killing as we speak. Unidad Ideológica was conceived at Bogotá's Rat Trap, then recorded at Epia Estudios by Santiago Gonzalez during Colombia's strict lockdown and curfews earlier in 2021. Finally, it was mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. The design was undertaken by Darcy Cabrera with the photographic help of Isabel O'Toole.

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ALGARA	Absortos En El Tedio Eterno	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 238LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/22/2021 News from the front: Algara's first LP is here. From Barcelona, the land where the CNT-FAI shined in 1936, now the anarchist bombs explode again through the twelve tracks of Absortos En El Tedio Eterno. Ever wondered what would have happened if the Rondos and Crass had joined forces at the Conway Hall or if Aviador Dro and Esplendor Geometrico never had a couple of judo kicks and the four started a new band? Well, then you are close to imagining how Algara sounds. At times sparse militant punk a la Crisis/Fallout filtered thru the KGB/Siniestro Total machine. At times minimal synthetic idealist anthems, but always revolutionary, forward thinking, and making the sound their own. The anonymous collective self-recorded Absortos En El Tedio Eterno in a Barcelona squat while engaging in their agitprop campaigns. With songs about poor working conditions, the constant evictions, youth unemployment, and a city consumed by tourism and other forms of gentrification, the LP is a cold call to arms for today's political punk. The LP sleeve shows members of the collective at one of their rendezvous point looking cool. Comes with an A2 double sided poster, 14-page manual for Sound Guerrilla booklet and a sticker. For fans of: Antorcha, Futurisk, Siniestro Total, Total Control, Aviador Dro, Crisis, Crass, Rondos.

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KOMA	Internment Failure	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 234LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/22/2021 Leeds/London band Koma deliver their debut LP Internment Failure. 12 tracks of brutal, unrelenting, constantly contorting, and mutating hardcore -- perfectly encapsulating the desperation of living in the final generations of a failed state, watching the life of the planet ebb away. Frantically written and recorded across two cities within the band's first 12 months of existence, Koma casts a wide net of global influences but refuses to be indebted to any one singular band or scene. At times recalling the classic Finnish and Swedish hardcore of Mellakka and Crude SS mixed with the raw distorted brute power of Voĉo Protesta and Bastard; echoes of the unhinged mayhem of Ataque Frontal and Chain Reaction subside to moments of gothic tension like Tozibabe and Pyhäkoulu. Koma makes a bold and ambitious statement of intent, a wholly-realized vision and fully-formed sound of pummeling riffs and powerful vocals that will remind of Sacrilege's debut.

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FRIED E/M	Modern World	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 212LP
$23.50 IN STOCK Fortysomething years after it crawled oozing and spitting out of the social turmoil of the mid-70s, punk has mutated in countless ways, sonically, aesthetically, politically, but on Fried E/M's Modern World they drag it back into place as brute expression of ugly feelings crammed into short catchy punk bursts, sneering at conciliatory ideals on peace and love with the same energy as the Clash singing "Hate & War", squealing with the nihilistic urge for oblivion on "Lobotomy" just as the Ramones did. Four decades later, we're all still struggling with ourselves, with society, and still ready to revel in the nihilistic teenage id that splays itself out on these eleven tracks of disaffected snot. Punk as its fundamental core, panicked snaps of self-loathing and anti-social rage blasted out raw and unfiltered, bricks and voids and violence, no second thoughts, no tricky questions, sounding like the point where the initial wave of punk was being ramped up into the inchoate hardcore of Circle Jerks' Group Sex (1980), The Middle Class, or like the Ramones did an entire album of songs like "Warthog". Fried E/M hail from Missouri and are made up of many familiar faces on the Lumpy Family including the Lumpy himself on drums.

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PORVENIR OSCURO	Asquerosa Humanidad	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 237LP
$26.50 IN STOCK NYC's Porvenir Oscuro are back with their first full length after a very distant demo and 7". Made up of 13 tracks, Asquerosa Humanidad doesn't let the foot off the gas for a second. It is relentless pogo inducing attack that falls somewhere between Fertil Miseria, RIP and early Chaos UK. With tunes full of aggression, melody and fuzz in equal measure, laying the foundation for vocalist Sara to spit her vile. Lyrically the album deals with modern day frustration, showing little faith in humankind and a massive disrespect towards authority like any self-respecting person should. While stand firmly in the punk terrain Porvenir Oscuro borrows from the rich worldwide sounds of the underground delivering a fully formed sound and aesthetic which is their own. Asquerosa Humanidad sleeve, labels and double sided A2 poster were designed by guitarist Gage Allison. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Sasha Stroud at Artifact Audio.

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TAQBIR	Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause	7"	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 241EP
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/27/2021 February 21st 2021 saw the digital release of Taqbir's first outing. The enigmatic recording turned many heads and got many people speculating about this absolute rager of Moroccan origin. Four months later the physical version of this recording sees the light. Simply put, it was just too good to be a digital-only endeavor. The four tracks of Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause are four short vomits of anti-religious sentiment made music. Sang in Moroccan Arabic, Taqbir's lyrics are irreverent, careless outburst of anger towards an extremely patriarchal oppressive place. Musically Taqbir walks a thin line joining some great qualities in punk music. The aggression of fuckwave originators Diskolokost, the nastiness of The Comes vocalist' Chitose and the raw reverb-drenched heavily-distorted non-production of The Sexual or Destino Final. An amazing example of primitive world musik and hopefully part of a new wave of Taqwacore bands. The record comes with a double side A4 poster with lyrics and band's graphic.

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MALADIA	Sacred Fires	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 233LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/25/2021 Maladia's Sacred Fires 12" EP stands on an abyss made of the hiss and fog of a thousand generated cassette demos and the murky despair of damaged electronics and overloaded amplifiers. Equal doses of raw punk from the Southern Hemisphere and '80s European HC punk influences mingle with harrowing and desperate vocal cries, echoing Rudimentary Peni and Nerorgasmo as if both bands were hanging out in the back seat of a tour van listening to Antisect on a boombox. Recorded in a pre-fire Fuzzbrain studios in oppressive mid-summer heat, this will tear your turntable up.

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KOHTI TUHOA	Kohti Tuhoa	12"	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 229EP
$23.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Kohti Tuhoa's self-titled debut EP is finally available on vinyl again. The earlier 7" pressings sold out long ago and are getting harder to find, so it's time for this record to get the well-deserved La Vida Es Un Mus treatment. Unsatisfied with the original release, the band decided to remaster the record from the original analog tapes and rework the layout for best possible results. The LVEUM pressing will be cut on a 45rpm 12" and includes the complete seven-track session with the bonus track "Velkaa Maksat Kuitenkin", which was left out of the original pressing since the session was too long for a 7". This is Kohti Tuhoa in their early days: raw, noisy, fast and slightly more metallic, like a mix of Behind the Realms of Madness-era Sacrilege, Framtid and classic Finnish hardcore.

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RATA NEGRA	Una Vida Vulgar	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 235LP
$23.00 IN STOCK "Rata Negra return with Una Vida Vulgar their third and best album. A truly pop infused punk record with an incredible production. The album harks back to their previous work in Juanita Y Los Feos but with more pop elements and a bigger and better production. Each of the ten tracks are so good, that they could be released as a single. The rhythm section is locked in and the guitars buzz but it's the vocals that take this to pop heaven. The first side of the album starts with "Venid A Ver" and doesn't let up until the Phil Spector-esque 'Cuando Me Muera'. Flip over and it's straight back to the upbeat gems, which just keep coming until the final track 'Romance De Lobos' which ends the album in a more reflective album. Una Vida Vulgar is pure perfection and for fans of X, Blondie and Rik Agnew." --Sean Forbes

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CHISEL, THE	Come See Me/Not The Only One	7"	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 231EP
$12.50 NOT IN STOCK "Second EP by London based punk outfit The Chisel, featuring "Chubby" Charlie Manning Walker from Chubby & the Gang. The next wave of the NWOBHC. 'Chisel this, Chisel that', it's on my phone, it's on my hard drives, it's on my turntable, it's on my t-shirt, it's on my Instagram, it's on my blogspot, it's tattooed on my forehead, my own parents renewed their wedding vows to 'Rat Running Scared.' I pressed stop. I unplugged my headphones, turned down the volume, and snapped that god forsaken single in half. Enough was enough! But see me, yeah. Once the music stopped only one thought rang through my head: What Have I Done? Where once there was explosive energy there was now a void. Lucky for me, the five loveable lads from Blackpool, Croydon, Acton, Chingford, and Guildford kept it movin', and just when I thought all was lost they brought me back in. Three more blasts of full fat extra saturated deep-fried limb swinging confrontational uplifting chisel chiseling punk for that special space in your life. Enough said? No. Cos they've done it again." --Jonah Falco

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SNOB	Snob	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 160LP
$22.00 NOT IN STOCK Snob has snarled around the local London scene since 2014, leaving a trail of two self-released 7"s and adulation in their wake. It's now the year 2018, and Snob finally offer their fully-fledged follow-up of tense hardcore punk that's characterized by frantic snotty dictation, agitated guitar lines, and pummeling rhythms. The ten songs on the self-titled 12" are filled with disparities -- sneering hi-energy, sentient meat and potato, adroit silliness, agitated apathy -- creating a bleak and angry sonic force. The whip-smart whip-short lyrics are almost a poetry-to-arms that rails against all of the absurdities of modern living. To these ears, Snob is like if you left YouTube tabs of Icons Of Filth, Peni, Nog Watt, and Jetset/Bloebad all playing at once, and it somehow sounded wonderful.

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SUBDUED	Over The Hills And Far Away	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 222LP
$22.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Subdued unleash their crushing debut album and not a moment too soon. In these dark and bleak days of 2020, they deliver a perfect album of classic anarcho punk with gothic tinges. Impassioned vocals, raging guitar work that ranges from straight ahead to every-so tinted flanged sounds mix with a locked in, energetic and relentless rhythm section. There are moments of quiet and calm, spoken-word vocals and metallic edges that just add to the tension and intensity. If someone told you that this was released in 1986 on Mortarhate, you wouldn't be surprised. This album, along with Bad Breeding (2016) are setting the bar for a new golden age of anarcho punk in the UK. This album deserves a place in your collection next to Icons Of Filth, Anti Sect, Vex, and Exit Stance. Includes 16-page lyric booklet with art by Nicky Rat and Jack Sabbat.

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NERVOUS SS/RAT CAGE	Skopje Vs Sheffield	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 231LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/23/2021 It's a stark and baron land out there right now. What everyone needs is some fucking loud, fast, uncompromising raw punk to drown out the constant bullshit being broadcasted as 2021 develops. Both following up storming debut LP's with five new tracks plus a local cover each, Nervous SS and Rat Cage clash head-to-head on this 12-song barrage of hell for leather punk rock. The Nervous SS side (Skopje) undoubtedly wears a Totalitär influence on its sleeve, but combine that sweet sound with a complete powerhouse vocal bombardment that sets Nervous SS a cut above the rest. Flip to the Rat Cage side (Sheffield) for a rapid attack of Scandi riffs with the relentless urgency everyone has grown to know and love from the band. The side ends with a U.K. Subs cover, clearly displaying Rat Cage's classic British punk influence. With Master dials set firmly to "destroy mode", this record will be your savior in these dark times. Crank it.

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BELGRADO	Sigo XXI	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 077LP
$27.50 NOT IN STOCK 2020 repress, originally released in 2013. Barcelona's Belgrado return with their second album Siglo XXI and first for La Vida Es Un Mus. The 11-track album melds dark and dreamy goth and post punk with a stunning and clear production. The bass leads and drives each track into the batcave whilst the vocals yearn and ache on top. This record has a clear '80s English influence (Killing Joke, Vex, A Touch of Hysteria, Blood and Roses, etc.) but it also very modern-day Barcelona with the reverb as important as an instrument and totally DIY. 2011's excellent self-titled LP has been bettered in sound, production and song. The LP comes in a thick black and white sleeve with artwork from drummer Jonathan Sirit. Also includes a 30x30 insert, an extra lyric sheet and a 40x55 poster.

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NEKRA	Royal Disruptor	7"	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 221EP
$10.00 NOT IN STOCK Nekra's ripping and long awaited follow up to their demo blisters and pummels through five tracks of punishing punk. Tight tempo changes bracket blasted, buzzing guitars, rumbling bass, reckless drumming, and powerful vocals. Five tracks and no mercy!

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HEKATE	Μepec Opync (Days of Wrath)	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 224LP
$25.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL It's not surprising that Hekátē chose their name after the ancient Greek goddess Hekate, the deity of the underworld, witchcraft, nighttime and crossroads. Hekátē are four women coming from different paths, all of which converged in the Spring of 2018, and met at the great crossroad of Athens' eternal night. Their music is multi-referential, an explosive mix of their magic potions. The heavy, melodic bass establishes the base of their post-punk sound. The drums derail it where necessary. The synths, more electric than electronic, can be heard distinctly, at times leaning towards a smarter new wave but also giving a wink at garage rock. The vocals sound like an enraged, rhythmic recital tight-roping along the melody. As a result, their eight tracks move along a scale, starting with melancholic, urban hymns and ending in anxious, frenzied chases, all tied together with a ceremonial atmosphere. The record title, Μέρες Οργής (Days of Wrath), is a translation of the Medieval hymn "Dies Irae," which warns of God's wrath, which will come down on the people during the second coming. Through their lyrics, Hekátē turn their wrath towards God, the people who created Him and the constricting world those people sustain. It starts out like a cry for help and climaxes into a war cry. Hekátē's war cry is the voice of a generation of emancipated women in motion. With few similar examples across the Greek scene, it comes as the result of their own liberation and of the many who came before them, paving the way. As political beings, Hekátē cannot but reflect their own gender identity in their music. An identity that -- whether on stage or on record, or out there in the high-speed jungle of Greek society -- expresses emotions from discomfort to aggression, as it is by definition obstructed by outdated and invisible privileges. For those who don't wish to understand, they explain it, cut and dry, with their track-manifesto "Soapbox," reminding them: "You think you see me? Well, you see shit!" However, do not be disheartened. Days of Wrath is not some wooden, incomprehensible declaration of ideas. It is a deeply poetic, atmospheric record, doused in cloudy melodies that know when to hit the gas to carry the listener to the other side.

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BARCELONA	Residuos Del Ultrasonido	7"	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 206EP
$10.00 IN STOCK "Over three years ago the band Barcelona entered the studio to record what was originally planned as a double LP. As the genius that they are, they managed to record around 25 minutes of their trademark 'extremo Nihilismo' sound. A high concept sonic vomit somewhere between Cro Magnon, Iskra, No Trend, and Petra De Fenetra. Comfortably sitting on the crossing between hi-brow conceptual art and low-brow delinquency. In the intersection where the Exploited meet the Incus catalogue as if Tony Oxley and Ian Brighton were jamming with Wattie and Big John. The recording was eventually (and conceptually it seems) split into two records. The first one being Un Último Ultrasonido Nació Y Murió En Barcelona (MUS 138EP, 2017) and the second one Residuos Del Ultrasonido released now a mere three years later. Loads could be written about the painful process between both records but let's just focus on the recording and be clear: Residuos pisses all over its predecessor. The songs are full of spite and power with the level of vileness reaching new levels on this eight-track 7" EP. Listen to 'Higiene' or 'Salvajes' and tell me they are not some of the best Barcelona songs ever. As always, artwork taken care by Oriol Roca, a person I look forward to never hearing from again." --Paco Mus

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FOC	La Fera Ferotge	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 210LP
$20.00 NOT IN STOCK Absolutely reckless and compressed hardcore punk rock, full of jumps in register and micro-shifts in timing. Based in Barcelona, and powering through ten songs in their mother tongue of Catalan, this livid and catchy record is like Motorhead at 78rpm with the vocal phrasing of the Peggio Punx or Indigesti. Sounds like the bass is made of wiggly melted down Gitoni players, and the guitars have Big Muff pedals wedged in the amplifier cones. Punk at this level of disheveled velocity and excitement is a rare art.

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MURO/ORDEN MUNDIAL	Sonido De La Negacion	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 213LP
$17.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL Bogotá's Muro and Mallorca's Orden Mundial have been flattening audiences all over the world with their unrelenting passion and energy. Now, one of the mightiest of all possible pairings in today's already delectable world of hardcore/punk is available for the worldwide community of underground music. Recorded in Berlin in the icy grips of winter 2017, Orden Mundial devastate the A-side with a uniquely southern Spanish take on some classic American HC tropes like the buzzsaw sensibility of Boston Not LA era Jerry's Kids, part noisecore a la Confuse, all blended with a dirge-y desperation that "Side B" era Blag Flag would leap upon with utter enthusiasm. Muro follow with an equally massive grip of songs in their uniquely "Muro" style. This is punk music only they could have made. Bursting with aggression and sadness, this is manic and dynamic hardcore at its best eight-page booklet by Bernat Mundial.

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PERMISSION	Organised People Suffer	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 211LP
$23.50 IN STOCK The latest record from London's Permission perfects their thin savage sound that they've been refining for three records now. Restless manic hardcore, squirming with fury. While some hardcore attacks with sheer force or repetitive brutality, Permission's riffs whip back and forth like loose firehose, and though there may be some spiritual ancestors in the likes of weirder, more discomfiting ends of '80s hardcore like Die Kreuzen or Mecht Mensch, Permission's angle of attack, their style of itchy marshalled chaos, unpredictable yet never disjointed, is very much their own.Organised People Suffer sleeve and poster designed by guitarist Ralph Simmonds with a lyric insert designed by drummer Lloyd Harris.

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