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Nagasaki: Swedish Kängpunk Comes Ripping on Debut Tape Release (Premiere)
It was 1981 and four young miscreants from the Swedish city of Gothenburg started a punk band called The Shitlickers. In the spring of 1982, they recorded and released their first EP of four songs clocking in around one minute each. “This record has an urgent feel to it that conjures up an image of […]
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It was 1981 and four young miscreants from the Swedish city of Gothenburg started a punk band called The Shitlickers.
In the spring of 1982, they recorded and released their first EP of four songs clocking in around one minute each. “This record has an urgent feel to it that conjures up an image of the band breaking into a studio in the middle of the night and recording it in twenty minutes then splitting before the cops show up”, wrote for Maximum Rocknroll the legendary columnist Felix von Havoc.
Inspired by the intense sound of Discharge and breaking the boundaries of what’s possible in terms of raw sound and aggression at the time, Swedish bands like Shitlickers, Anti-Cimex, Crude SS, Tatuerade Snutkukar, Moderat Likvidation, Nisses Nötter, Avskum, or Snobbslakt created possibly the purest expressions of the urgent rage and youthful energy that hardcore punk manifests to this today.
Forty years have passed since Shitlickers released their raw and primitive hardcore—or d-beat, d-takt, kängpunk, mangel, whatever you name it—masterpiece, and their legacy continued to live on in their homeland and elsewhere. Nagaski is one such new project by Patrik Westling from Sweden.
“Nagasaki started as a counterreaction to all the riffing hardcore bands that are active now, almost arena bands, in my opinion”, told us Patrik prior to the tape release. “I wrote a couple of songs and asked Jens Jefvel, who is a great drummer with the right mindset, to help me record the drums.” Neither the name Nagasaki, nor the primitive form of music Patrik plays sound original or something remarkable compared to four decades of d-beat history, but that has never been the intention anyway. Nagaski is all about fast-paced, noise-laden Shitlickers, Anti-Cimex and Tatuerade Snutkukar kängpunk.
Nagaski’s debut has been released on cassette tape by EveryDayHate, European label that otherwise specializes in grindcore releases, and consists of four short and noise-drenched tracks, just like the original Shitlickers EP. Raw, fast and primitive. Three words you have been reading a lot if you’re following DIY Conspiracy.
Listen to Nagaski’s release exclusively down below and keep mangeling for peace!
Source: diyconspiracy.net
