Herida Profunda – Power To The People CD
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Herida Profunda – Power To The People CD
"The four members of Herida Profunda have a lot to anger them. They hate seeing their home country of Poland governed by the right-wing populists in the Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość). Since 2015, their government has tried to pack the judiciary with political appointees and moved the state towards social conservatism. The EU Commission is not impressed and wants to withhold structural funds as punishment for imperilling the rule of law. Times like these do not call for subtle pop songs from champagne socialists – they call for grindcore.
To their credit, Herida Profunda choose not to abandon musicianship in the cause of direct action on their sophomore effort, and the variety of extreme metal and punk influences on this record will have no problem holding your attention. Let’s be honest, how can you stay in the background as a spectator when the songs are like blow dryers in your face and the vocals are as carnivorous as a flesh-eating chieftain? The opening title track is the type of brutal onslaught that still draws a smile through its sheer absurdity. How can the drummer play at 250bpm? Can you even discern the guitarist’s chord changes underneath the maelstrom of chaos? Follow up, ‘Dirty Hands’, does the opposite and pivots towards pogoing basslines and dissonant guitar slashes while the dual vocal histrionics smack you in the face. Listen to the violent bounce of ‘Wave of Hate’? Is this not d-beat hardcore with punk rock heroics and death metal growls?" - JVB / Scream Blast Repeat