400 BLOWS - 3-19-98 LP

Highly recommended.

We weren't previously familiar with this California trio but now, we're BLOWN AWAY by the sonic assault of 3-19-98. The name is wholly appropriate. The band's fiendishly garage, meat 'n potatoes metal lands like a series of fierce punches to the head.

The chafing, full-frontal attack of 3-19-98 is engorged with the kind of dense noise, unforgiving feedback, and larynx-corrupting vocals that are powerful enough to hurl you through a brick wall.

Guttural, blaring riffs seep from every infected pore of 3-19-98, a record consisting of eight shredders that will leave you punch-drunk. If you are not in good enough shape to deal with them, get the hell outta the ring.

RIYL: Coalesce, Today Is The Day, Unsane, Neurosis