Ask a Punk NetherlandsCancelled: ARRA SCUM FEST: Catharsis (US) + Seein’ Red + Bezette Stad (BE) + Karnabahar + Radical Vitality
Willemeen, Friday, March 20 at 06:30 PM GMT+1
ARA SCUM FEST
CATHARSIS
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Taking up arms against a wave of authoritarianism and despair, North Carolina's premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, "Hope Against Hope."
This record picks up where their last material left off, continuing to push the envelope for what hardcore can do. Catharsis don't retread the ground they broke on their previous albums, but press forward into ever more abrasive and dynamic territory. Politically, they remain uncompromisingly radical in their lives as well as lyrics. This is not a band that has slowed down, toned down, or mellowed out.
Sticking to their roots in the do-it-yourself underground, they are releasing the album through CrimethInc. in the United States, Refuse in Europe, and No Gods No Masters in South America. The band recorded the drums with Benny Grotto at Mad Oak Studios and tracked the rest themselves. For the backing vocals, Catharsis tapped the vocalists of some of their favorite hardcore bands: Poland's Next Victim, Brazil's Point of No Return, and North Carolina's own Scarecrow and Vittna. Mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studio and mastered by Scott Crouse, "Hope Against Hope" is as explosive as our times.
Twenty-four years have passed since Catharsis released their last record, the split LP featuring "Arsonist's Prayer," though they did complete another song from that session for their discography in 2012. But they have been playing regularly together since 2013, adding Jimmy Chang (of Undying and Sect), who left the band in 1995, to the lineup that recorded the "Passion" LP. It was high time to record another album, making the most of material that has come together across two decades. In fact, Catharsis has never sounded better.
"Hope Against Hope" is an assault on a self-destructing society and a beacon of inspiration for all who are determined to survive.
SEEIN' RED
Dutch Legendary hardcore punk band SEEIN RED formed in 1988 after LÄRM called it quits. We are a D.I.Y. Underground Hardcore Punk Noise Attack with cutting political protest lyrics. We are reds with anarchistic tendencies laced in. Always anti-fascist! Fast as fuck and absolutely pissed at the state of things. this is the perfect encapsulation of why punk remains relevant, both as musical genre and as a social movement.
BEZETTE STAD
Belgian hardcore band BEZETTE STAD has been releasing music for about five years now. They have a new EP “El Mundo Kaput” coming up. Their latest release expect articulate hardcore blended with D-beat, as if PAINT IT BLACK started hanging out with DISCHARGE.
KARNABAHAR
De in Nederland gevestigde band Karnabahar (Bloemkool in het Turks), met leden uit Argentinië, Turkije, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Nederland, vond elkaar in hun gedeelde liefde voor old school 90's/00's screamo en Balkan en Anatolische volksmuziek. Verwacht melancholische melodieën en chaotische ritmes.
RADICAL VITALITY
Unforgiving hysterical harsh noise sound explorations through heavy electronics. Gruesome experiments in the form of total musical destruction.
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