I found them on the Savour your Scene compilation. Among the usual metallic variations around, under, over hardcore, their sound was so different I had to stop and check my mp3 to remember the name.
Unlike their label companions, they don't seem to explore the darkest corners of the human deviant soul, but they rather start directly with a good square efficient riff, and then a dirty bass line, and then that goofy voice that reminded me (I don't really know why) the first Dog Eat Dog album. I imagined them with XXL shorts and reverse caps, jumping all around and singing about having fun. But the more closely I listenend to the song, the less it sounded like Dog Eat Dog, or even like hardcore.
The song is a bit longer than usual, and the length doesn't serve as an excuse for experimenting calmer spacy moments to make your mind looking for god, harmony or your lighter. Just riff, just big bass, and the voice ends up shutting up to let the instrumental fury goes on, and on, and before you even notice it, you are shaking your head. Past the 3rd minute you are hooked, don't deny it, and what goes after is just pure pleasure: a break, that incredible bass sound, a bit of larsen, and the battery is back, like pam-pam-pam-pam to the conclusion of the song.
It is called "Motives", and it lead me directly to their bandcamp.
Same recipe, same effects: I used to listen to it while typing school shit, and I sistematically ended up banging my head against my screen. So I stopped typing, and I tried to understand.
Extended songs (from 3 to 12 minutes), killer riffs, toying song structures, really good clean-yet-dirty sound... reminded me of the desert, the generator, the dawns drowned in pot, mushrooms and beer vapours.That would be the stoner part of it. But no mysticism. At all (even if the "D.M.T." intro could let you think of the contrary). Full level energy, can't stop, won't stop. When the music slows down (like in the beginning of "Vermin"), it is only to consciously build the next attack. That would be the hardcore part, I suppose.
I first concluded they were the perfect mixture of stoner with hardcore. But that's even simpler: it is not a mixture, nor any new variation around well-defined musical forms. It is just... rock'n roll, man! It reminds me of Black Sabbath with more muscles, or a more rainy Kyuss. But more than influences, what you hear when listening to "Depths" is the plain simple pleasure to play loud and fast. And it is done so sincerely that you can't help but bang your head and smile. No fronts, no tricks, no soap box politics, no guns, just blunts, they kick this just for fun.
The website.
The music.
The reviews: MetalIreland / AyeTunes / NoiseAddiction / etc.
PS: I missed the grunge part of the comparison, but it does make sense too.
PS: their song on the Mudbitch/Comply or Die live split is just crazy.
