If you can’t win by reason
With an earth auger of a sound, “Mental Taxation”
kicks off the new galloping seven-minute streak of an EP by Industrial Puke. The
opening song’s thick, compressed production and deft chord changes represent
the band’s best and only method.
Industrial Puke at times tries a regulated rhythm but cannot
long resist the siren of speed. The one break from the forcible run comes at
about a minute and a half into “Constant Pressure” with a slamming progression
of chords—each chord stands out once from the blur. Then guitars harmonize and
the song resumes its inevitable flameout.
The music bullies you, goes straight-ahead with insolent
consistency—Industrial Puke happily suffers the hobgoblin of little minds. The
band comes from where volume is power, volume overcomes weakness. Sound waves
knock through the ear canal and shoulder into the tympanic membrane, like it or
not.
The Swedish hardcore punk band started about 5 years
ago. Time settling on a lineup and writing songs led us here, to Where
Life Crisis Starts. The band put out its debut single and video,
“Mental Taxation,” in June 2022, is partnering with Suicide Records to
release this EP on September 16th, and plans to issue the full album Born
into the Twisting Rope in spring of 2023.
