Barrelling out of Chicago with the type of unhinged lunacy usually reserved for probably the most throat shredding and finger callousing ends of Finnish hardcore comes Stress Positions. Fashioned within the yr of shelter-in-place (2020), that includes former members of C.H.E.W. and led by firebrand frontmanic Stephanie Brooks, the band are about to comply with up their Harsh Actuality full-length with and EP entitled Human Zoo. The EP is ready for launch on the sixteenth and options new tunes in addition to remixes by Planet B and Made by Human Fingers. The band’s bio unashamedly describes them as “remaining anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist, amongst the numerous different issues that fall into these frameworks. Subjects addressed on this launch embody draconian abortion legal guidelines, washed up comedians who can’t address a altering world, the long-lasting results of Western colonialism, the Israeli genocide, subjugation and occupation of the Palestinian folks and their lands, Proper Wing army indoctrination, and being an individual of shade in a white-dominated subculture.”
Says guitarist Ben Rudolph about “Salbahe Ako,” the monitor we’re premiering at the moment: “The title interprets to “I’m savage” in Tagalog and offers with being a lady of shade in a white hegemonic subculture. The opening traces to the tune actually set the tone: “Behold my kind and quake in concern. Am I the one brown one right here? Inform me the way you worth my perspective. I get off on placing myself the place I don’t belong.” Musically, this can be a becoming closing monitor for the file as it’s relentless all through. We tried to push ourselves on this one in attempting do some issues we haven’t up to now. A medley of noise rock, hardcore and demise metallic all rolled into one.”
Examine ‘em out within the Chicago space on Might 11 on the Backside lounge w/ Converge, Huge Snigger and Hell is Actual.
*photograph by Ricardo Adame
