Avskum : "EN ANNAN V​Ä​RLD ÄR M​Ö​JLIG"

These guys have been around since 1982. If they were an American band these guys would be given that status of legends , but they are from Sweden, whose hard core scene took longer to get the recognition it deserves. Though you are only as good as your last album, so legendary status only takes you so far here. The more rock opening track of this album , works better than the more one trick pony style of hyper aggressive shouted punk that seems to be their bread and butter. You can hear how this sort of thing might have influenced thrash back in the day. Gunnar yells until his voice takes on a weather rasp. Lyrically they are hyper political and very "socially" focused. But the message is not delivered in the most effective manner. 

At the end of the day I am 8 songs, in and they are all sounding the same . The plus side to having all your songs at a minute and a half, is at least your ears are only toured by this lack of dynamics for so long. "Dead Soul Retrieval" at least has more of a Motorhead like rumble to it . There begins to form a pattern of songs that have a rougher coarse vocal layered over the main vocal. It is more interesting than the typical punk gang vocal. They race through the songs with the kind of chaos I guess many punk prefer. Dynamics are non existent. At times more of a Motorhead feel crops up, but not enough to expand the sonic scope of what they do. Even the guitar solos begin to sound the same. 

"Darkista" races around with little direction. The temper tantrum mood the songs explode into sounds like ranting without reason. The bass rumbles out of the under produced clash of guitars. Now if you wonder what this band sounds like live I am sure it is not far from what you are hearing here. "Silence is Violence" comes closest to having it's own personality. If you are a long time fan of these guys, then you are perhaps well aware their songs all sound the same, and you obviously like this in the music you listen to . I will give this album a 6, as it is not my thing as I need more dynamics when it comes to song writing even in punk music.