Saturday 25 April 2020

PAKT - Histeria (2018) - tour promo tape

Band................................Pakt
Album..............................Histeria
Year.................................2018
Genre..............................noise d-beat punk crust
Format.............................tape
Country............................Slovenia
Web.................................youtubebandcamp
Label................................self released


and now, something extra rare, and also pretty special to me, promo tape for Pakt's 2018 euro tour when they hit the road with Brazilian thrash hardcore punks Surra.. Pakt is noisy d-beat punk band from Koper and Ljubljana and they are one of my favourite from the time they started, somewhere since 2013, if I'm not wrong.. also they were having bunch of gigs in my surroundings, but somehow I usually managed to miss them every damn time.. during the above mentioned tour they visited Novi Marof among others so that was perfect chance to see them live.. on this gig I bought this great little piece of plastic and wow, how I'm glad I did..
this is probably self released by the band in only 30 hand numbered copies with fresh material previously unpublished anywhere else (later some songs ended up on the split LP with Matrak Attakk) recorded in winter 2017/2018 at Radio Študent, Ljubljana..
the whole thing looks original and kind of unusual for the genre, white cover with blue single side print on some kind of hard paper (looks and feel like recycled, I'm not sure) and the cassette itself is also blue..
6 songs (3 on each side of the tape) all together in some 8 minutes, it means short but with full throttle, raw d-beat punk with noisy guitar and yelled, delayed female and crusty male vocals.. imagine mix between all this noisy Portland's raw punk, crust bands (L. Toten, Detestation, Axiom, A. Madness...) just with something less distortion and noise (I mean, still they have just one guitar, hehe) with some Japanese d-beat rawness and all blended with classic Balkan hardcore punk feel from early 00's and that's it, now you have Pakt..  songs are as always on english, slovenian, spanish and even on italian this time, I assume, according to the title of song Cerbiatto.. I really like the raw and unpolished sound of this, it suits them maybe better than the one recorded in studio for their debut Aural Noise Annihilation.. this one brings more live/rehearsal spirit which I like the most..
don't have idea if this is still available anywhere, I guess not, also I didn't seen this anywhere on the net, but hey, it's your fault if you wasn't on their gig and buy this little, but actually big, piece of treasure..


 

















P.S. - okay, as I can't find this online and as probably is already sold out I decide to upload it on youtube.. as I forgot how to rip a tape and it's too much work here is lousy video of it, recorded with my smartphone while playing on tape deck.. sound quality is awful but it's better than nothing..
check it at this link..

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