[engl] The debut release for a new Bristol based band, an 8 track mini LP that is a pure hardcore punk rager, somewhere between early Poison Idea and Hellnation… (from the opening roar of noise, personally, I immediately registered 9 Shocks Terror)… In the modern day scheme of things they rank (yeah, sorry) alongside Stray Bullet, Zero Again and Rat Cage; and there’s also distinct traces of the local region, as exemplified in recent years by Regret, No Pulse, Bullet Ridden etc. And, with that in mind, apropriately enough, Rank feature at least one member of Grand Collapse; plus on drums, Mark, an old comrade from the Southampton scene having played in No Substance and Whole In The Head, and more recently/currently Beginning Of The End/Agnosy.

[engl] The debut release for the both the band and also the label, Scene Report Records. Unified Action are from the North East of England, consisting of ex members of Tied Down, and also, suprisingly, Australia’s Extortion. Straight ahead hardcore, a powerful variation on an timeless formula in which you can hear classic old school hardcore (I’m going to randomly pluck-out early Sick Of It All and Ripcord from the mental libary), but by way of late 80’s/early 90s Slap A Ham/Wardance (Infest/Citizens Arrest), and then filtered through a modern-day lense that is directly related to the member’s previous bands. Not so much reinventing the wheelie bin, more accurately they are bashing the fuck out of an old steel dustbin. And that, definitely, is a good thing. Especially when it is done like so…