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Review: 'Battalion Of Saints'
'Battalion Of Saints (EP)'   

-  Label: 'Southern Lord'
-  Genre: 'Punk/New Wave' -  Release Date: '30th October 2015'

Our Rating:
The blurb: Battalion Of Saints were a major catalyst in accelerating the transition from the already upbeat, adrenaline-charged punk of the early 1980s in to feral, snarling hardcore punk of the highest quality and intensity. Pounding distorted pace, live shows dripping with sweat and threat, and a gnarly attitude – Battalion Of Saints stand tall among bands from the era including the, Dead Kennedys, Crucifix, Minor Threat, Discharge as well as Southern Lord’s Poison Idea, The Offenders and Excel, remaining a crucial part of an immortal and ongoing legacy.

The analysis: Southern Lord have exhumed a fair few long-lost underground classics in the past couple of years or so, and given new life to acts presumed long-lost, dead and buried. This lands alongside as many revelations from the classic years of US hardcore as from the dingy metal and crust punk scenes with which Southern Lord have become largely synonymous.

Battalion of Saints’ eponymous EP, which sees them resurrected with founding vocalist George Anthony fronting their latest incarnation, and accompanied by two members of Angry Samoans, is all about the short, sharp shock. A frantic, frenetic, kinetic blast of of-school hardcore. They’ve hardly sold out on the production – it sounds like it was recorded on an 8-track in someone’s house in 1983 – and there isn’t a track on here that exceeds the two and a half minute mark. It’s a shouty, angry racket, and completely exhilarating.
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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