[engl] Upon returning from a European tour late in 2006, Ballast promptly broke up. 3/5th of the band would continue to play together and soon would form PREYING HANDS including new members whose previous efforts included Montreal bands Snake Master, Desperate Living and Last Days. The sound seamlessly blends an odd combination of crust, melodic hardcore and a touch of pop punk. The powerful female vocals, that lyrically combine the personal with the political, complete an intense picture. Production was handled on this debut effort by Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, weird...) at the Pines and mastered at Mammoth Sound by Dan Randall (Limp Wrist, Government Warning).

[engl] "The scum of toytown is back! 20 years after their fantastic debut album ""Strike"", the band from Stevenage (UK) is back together and recorded a brand new full lenght LP in 2014. On here they feature a set of previously unrecorded older material alongside with new songs that sound just as they picked it up again where they left off in 1995. A festival of tuneful but subversive punk-MUSIC (yes, in capitals) merging the drive and rage of anarcho punk with reggae parts and hints of pop and dub groves. Transporting a personal yet punk political message across the listener. Sometimes full on powerful riffage, sometimes furious, sometimes melancolic and melodic, all at the same time, wrapped up in a top notch DIY production. SCUM OF TOYTOWN were a obscure phenomena of the 1990ies, rootet in the North London punk scene of the late 1970ies and 1980ies. They crawled out of the void and managed in their short existence to make a lasting impact on everyone fortunate enough to catch them either live or on record before they sunk into oblivion for unknown reason. They appeared on festivals and squats in central Europe and making everyone (seriously) move and dance along to their unique style of innovative sounding punkrock. Music that makes you toss a brick with a smile on your face. "

[engl] 10 years after their first full lenght "Pink Pollution" (which was followed by 4 further CDs & EPs), VICIOUS IRENE from Gothenburg, Sweden, are back with a brand new album! Within all these years of playing and writing songs together, VICIOUS IRENE have managed to create a style of individual Hardcore punk that melts together elements of classic Scandi D-Beat, Jap-Core and nineties Grunge/Punk, forming a stomping and massive beast of Grrrl Punk (all members are female). 10 new tracks that give you an imagination of DISCHARGE meeting up with L7 or BIKINI KILL to discuss gender, feminism and authoritarian politics over a tea or booze bootle (you decide) not forgetting irony and humor... - The recording is a screaming steamroller of sheer and raw heavy noise and pounding drums. Comparsions to other bands probably don't judge VICIOUS IRENE in 2012, as they sound as unique and fresh as no other band I can think of at the moment. Great album, I am really happy to be part of this project!

[engl] The third full length album by Göteborg's Grrrl-Käng outfit ""Vicious Irene"" is finally here and contains eleven storming tracks of shredding and bellicose feminist infused Grrrlcrust-Punk! Expect some more relentless swedish ""kang-punk"" and L7'esque grunge with heaps of scandinavian-black metal guitars in league with the unstoppable ""full throttle human d-beat machine"" behind the drum kit.

[engl] It's not an easy job to review your own releases without falling too much into a hysteria (!) about how amazing it is. Well... this is one of a real hard one since I think it´s absolutely amazing AND fantastic! - These 4 young ladies hailing from Gothenburg (Sweden) surprised me last CSE tour with their blistering and massive mixture of punk rock and the odd early nineties "L7" grunge influence while beating it into bits with a harsh and uncompromising d-beat / crustcore overtone. - Dual female vocals pointing social political lyrics and topics and 4 songs in total (CD version includes one extra track!) that will make you rave with fists in the air and your stereo wandering towards your room. Annoying your neighbors never was such fun before! All put together on this slap of 7" vinyl including great photography art by Christina Bloom and artwork from Igor Absorte - Get this... Honestly, this band is awesome.

[engl] "This team double of international feminist inspired hardcore punk toured together across europe in 2015 and will continue to do so in 2016. We thought it's worth to have it engraved into wax and finally after (too) many delays this fine slap o' vinyl is ready to punch out! Six blasting new tracks from Göteborgs VICIOUS IRENE who continue where they stopped on their last full length ""Distorted State Of Mind"". A blend of radical feminist Crustpunk with a slight ""grunge"" edge and vocal melodies that remind you of early ""Babes In Toyland"" or ""L7"" in conjunction with some serious D-Beat-Crustcore! Valerie Solanas' SCUM MANIFEST is quoted more than once and the general lyrical content is pointing out a fair lot of current feminist-political topics that are hopefully inspiring to you as well. - Recorded and mixed by Pontus Redig (Agrimonia, Martyrdöd, Miasmal) and mastered by Göran Finnberg. Probably the best VICIOUS IRENE to date! On the flip side we have VEHEMENCE hailing from Marseille and Nancy (France) who deliver 3 extended songs of doom laden, shredding and distorted grind-metal-punk with an overall dystopian atmosphere. There's heaps of sludge and screamo-core every now and then and the whole musical package is a brutal grinder … especially live, this band manage to build up a wall of apocalyptic noise and mayhem. Just play loud and you know what i mean! Lyrics deal with the poetry of despair… just as you might expect, not too uplifting topics. Recorded and Mastered at La Cave 38 in' Metz by Monsieur Marcaille"