SHARKBULLET - Rampage EP
Self Released
Lately some friends and acquiescences of mine on Facecrack have been tagging me in videos and photographs from the past. Why, I have no fuckin idea. I have nothing against nostalgia as long as people don't dwell on it to the point of hating present reality. And unfortunately I know some people who are like that.
Strangely enough when I hit play for this latest release I was transported back to 1988/89. An interesting time for extreme music back then. Aside from the goings on in more popular music circles, the underground extreme music scene (what we called it at least) was going through a merging. You had bands riding a wake of metalish hardcore. No not crossover. These bands mixed their love of thrash, angry aggressive hardcore and strangely enough had a touch of the early beginnings of death metal.
I use to see bands like this every weekend at shows. Afterwards you would either get drunk, get laid or get into a fight and sometimes all three. Strange how that turned into a GG ALLIN song theme but I digress. Here we have the debut release by SHARKBULLET a three piece act outta Philadelphia, Pennsylvania otherwise known as Hostile City USA. Yes a place where you can still get into a fist fight over who makes the best cheese steaks. And the first NFL franchise stadium to have a magistrate's office down below to deal with angry fan antics. Oh yeah and they're proud of it.
SHARKBULLET are definitely a step out of the past and it's a good one. Their five cuts on this EP are good ol' metalish hardcore with some cool soloing. There's gruff angry real guy vocals which go on par with the music style. The songs carry violent tendencies as far as the memes. There's some good pit worthy rhythms going on here. I'm surprised Philly's own Horror Pain Gore Death Productions hasn't signed this band. Maybe they should.
https://sharkbullet.bandcamp.com/releases
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