Monday 5 September 2022

U.B.T. - s/t (2017) - tape

Band...............................U.B.T.
Album..............................s/t
Year.................................2017
Genre..............................raw hc noise punk 
Format.............................tape
Country............................Croatia
Web.................................youtube, bandcamp
Label................................self released


did you ever dream of traveling back in time and around the world and listen/watch your favorite bands from some specific scenes like ex yu had in 80’s and early 90’s with their primal, primitive and dark hardcore punk, often socio-politically colored, after war strike those parts, to save your life, you run to depressive and cold Finland and learn everything about their fast old school hardcore and then when you are fed up with constant dark, too expensive beers and vodka there, maybe to set off across the ocean, jump few years back, with just a quick stop in UK to witness Sore Throat and Deviated Instinct gig in Birmingham 1987 and after it head out all the way to USA, in 90’s and stay until present days and waste your miserable life on numerous d-beat raw punk street and parking lots shows in Oakland or NYC, then few of chaotic crust punk house gigs in Portland or in dirty basements and clubs of Minneapolis, and then over and over again!?.. I bet you did and you always thought that’s impossible.. well it probably isn't but here is something that can bring you very close.. furious trio from Zagreb U.B.T. (or Unhindered By Talent) and their 2nd self titled demo tape (to be honest, I don't know if is s/t or name is "Brzina Je Vrlina" how it is stated on the cassette and discogs).. self released by the band in only 50 pieces in December 2017 brings us 10 fast as fuck songs in uncompromising raw punk stayle, like chaotic mix of above mentioned specific scenes, ex yu hc punk combined with old school of Finnish hardcore rounded with all the distortion and reverberating noise of American raw punk bands.. lyrics are on Croatian and English and are about fucked up society we live in, about false values of some individuals on hc punk scene, system and media propaganda and similar stuff.. 
as noise will sure poke your ear drums, visuals will also be aggressive for your eyes, red tape with same colored details on simple white cover printed on "greasy" paper..
it all together makes fast and wild journey, only 10 minutes long but which will shake you properly and quite some time after you will ask yourself what the hell just hit you..
don’t know if tapes are still available, I doubt it, but you can download it for free from the bandcamp so go grab it!..


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