Friendship - Undercurrent



Founded in 2014 in Japan (the Chiba prefecture to be precise), these four anonymous gentlemen have released their second full-length album Undercurrent on Daymare Recordings. Their 2017 debut Hatred was mainly hard, fast, groovy and riff-oriented. Undercurrent has more variety and even better production. The vocals are more in the foreground and more importantly, the drums. And those get more room on this second grindcore/power-violence gem.


Tracklist
1. Demise
2.Vertigo
3. Punishment
4. Lack
5. Abandon
6. Fiend
7. Plague
8. Garbage
9. Wrecker
10. Hatred

But this is not your average super fast grindcore/power-violence record. Luckily Friendship take their foot off the gas sometimes. Not everything has to be played fast and low, that makes an album monotonous and that is definitely not the case on Undercurrent. A song like Vertigo shows so many different styles (hardcore, grindcore, sludge metal) as well as Punishment and Lack. The band has listened a lot to Nails and Nasum but they never bluntly copy those bands. They are more hardcore oriented and that makes them sound harder, angrier.

Friendship throws you into a reinforced concrete sewer pipe. Here and there some rusted metal bars stick through the concrete. Sharp bends break your bones and when you finally reach the bottom, all you hear is the rush of blood that flows from your broken skull. From the droney intro to the fading feedback of the last song, Friendship manages to clear your deepest anger from your soul. The band takes everything out and destroys it. Concrete hard record.

PS: Check out this live clip below, it'll blow you away.


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