New Bongripper album?

This just in from the Bongripper Facebook page:

"we have not been dormant. we have been writing the follow up full length to satan worshipping doom. there will be a great deal happening in 2013/2014."

I'm looking forward to this immensely.

Dystopia / Suffering Luna split

1. Dystopia - "Diary of a Battered Child" - 3:29
2. Suffering Luna - "La Reina del Rosario: - 5:14

Dystopia presents another vitriolic glimpse into misery, a misery that is explored extensively throughout their discography, one that must run very deep in the band’s desolate ego. This time, the nihilistic trio covers the topic of child abuse, a virulent subject curiously underexplored in hardcore punk:

what have I done to deserve

the agony you call love

I got a broken arm and stitches

while other kids got kisses and hugs

Bluntly, we are given an admittedly adolescent account (Dystopia aren’t exactly the most apt poets) of childhood trauma, but the fierce delivery of the vocals and knife-blade instrumentals will make you quiver under a vengeful fist.

when I die

don’t come to my funeral

Meanwhile, the professional psychonauts in Suffering Luna plunge into their usual sort of lysergic foray. Indecipherable samples waver faintly, ghostly, almost chant-like, beneath harsh clouds of DMT vapor and weed smoke, alien synth-beeps, and near-tribal percussion before being swept by a hardcore punk tornado and being set back down, then being swept up again, and so on, until their track literally moans into oblivion.

This split, unfortunately, is painfully short, but serves as a good sampler for both bands, as these songs exemplify their respective visions of hardcore. Not essential by any stretch, but a good place to start if these bands are unfamiliar to one's palate.


Boom.