Fans of our Seattle hardcore scene and all things Good To Die will find kindred spirits in Belgium’s Kabul Golf Club, and their killer EP Le Bal Du Rat Mort, out now on Uproar For Veneration! Featuring stellar, uncluttered production from Micha Volders, on the EP this powerful foursome is able to unleash a truly fierce racket across five tracks of brutal, inventive noise rock. As a way of locating their sound Kabul Golf Club references Shellac, Jesus Lizard, and The Blood Brothers, and those bold choices are apt, as the band features outstanding musicianship, coupled by an uncompromising sound in constant, blood curdling attack mode! “Bits of Freedom” opens the album with a dense flurry of high speed activity as guitars exchange volleys of machine gun fire, bass pummels with it’s muscular bounce, and FLorent Pevée‘s vocals knife thru in urgent warning. “Minus 45” is equally dense and intense, but here the guitars stalk each other before reeling about in drunken combat. On the track, Kabul Golf Club demonstrates their keen abilities to change rhythm at dizzying speeds, as well as skill at carving all kinds of harsh sonics from their blistering sound, with “Minus 45” noisily cooling down to the clashing of metals and grinding gears. “Fast moving consumer goods” proceeds more loosely and less hurried to begin, but it’s potential menace is no less apparent, and on the following track, “5 minutes 2 midnight“, the band unleashes the kind of rapid exchanges of math rock that form the core of KGC’s creative musical approach. To close the album, all hell breaks loose on “Demon Days“, with bass and guitar conducting a grunge match throw down, and Pevée’s vocals once again more than holding their own in a shouting match with the devil! After you stream Le Bal Du Rat Mort, watch the mayhem inducing video for “Demon Days“, directed by Stijn Vanwing.
Kabul Golf Club “Demon Days”:
