ILS - Pain Don't Hurt
Pogo Records
The band name is pronounced "ilz" which I find to be interesting since musically they're like a very bad hangover. A few months ago I was feeling nostalgic. I was looking through a box of old cassette tapes and pulled out some stuff with a bunch of Touch & Go and Amphetamine Reptile records releases on them as well as other stuff. We use to call that stuff Noise Rock. In hindsight that was pretty stupid because the music in general wasn't noise. A lot of those bands were either pushing the boundaries of punk rock or de-evolving rock music.
So welcome to the wonderful world of ILS and their five song aptly titled Pain Don't Hurt EP. This Portland four piece has a love for the past but are firmly proto metal sounding in order to appeal to modern day crazies. As far as the past aesthetics go they know that you have to keep that bass up front and throbbing. The drum work needs to snap at you like a back handed slap. The guitars have to just meander around with some focus but sound as if they have none. Vocals on here are a mix of psychotic screams and devil may care clean yet obnoxious speak singing.
Ya know a decade ago I pretty much left the whole punk rock thing mainly because well they left me. Be that as it may here's a band that gives me hope for the modern day punk scene. Although as memory serves me when bands from back in the day were playing this style of music you had plenty of hardcore types who trashed em for breaking the so-called punk rules. ILS are rule-breakers and as we all know rulebreakers rule.
https://pogorecords.bandcamp.com/
https://pogorecords.bandcamp.com/album/ils-pain-dont-hurt-pogo-126
https://www.facebook.com/ilspdx/
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