ninehertz

I'm drawn to this purely because its out on Fiadh Productions, and everything they align to is worth a listen, to find with only a little digging proclamations of happiness that Capitalist are returning (their last release looks to have been pre-Covid times). This is the first I've heard of them, but the seeming high regard is promising. It doesn't take long to understand, and to discern that this is premium blackened hardcore.

The first three tracks fly by in a murderous rampage, leaving me slack jawed. The opening Kuru's considered emotion sitting next to the fiery hardcore, adding rather than detracting from the weight of it which is oppressively experienced; as an introduction this is very good indeed. A crust punk feel surges through Gross Margin, the absolute breakneck instrumentation and those corrosive vocals, truly raucous, while Portable Morgue takes its time for half its length before exploding, making it up by doubling the speed from an already blurry pace set.

It's not to say the rest of the release drops from there either, just I had to take a breath and listen again at this point. Plague State shows its moves, and Human Resources may be the best thing on here, reminding me of the long lost and loved Cursed, as good a two minutes of the heavier end of hardcore you're likely to hear all year. It ends with its longest track, dragged out to a positively proggy 3:24 (side note - why do hardcore bands slower tracks always get put at the end?). It was produced by Cult of Luna's Magnus Lindberg after all, the whole album sounds stellar but this really benefits from that grand sound.

It's only about 20 minutes long, but feels longer, such is the momentous sense of "event" about it all, and how there's no dip in levels that may pass you by at all. Time for me to go into their back catalogue and make up for lost time I guess.