p.s.you'redead announce debut album 'Sugar Rot,' share lead single
Buffalo’s self-proclaimed danceviolence band p.s.you’redead contributed to not one but two of the best splits of 2021 (one with Mikau, one with Kurama, Thotcrime, and The Queen Guillotined), and now they’ve finally announced their debut album. It’s called Sugar Rot and due February 25 via Paper Wings, Chillwavve, and Salsa Verde Fanzine, and first single “The Mouth of Hell is Lit With Neon” is out now. As you can probably tell from the awesome single artwork (pictured above), this band sounds like they came straight out of the 2000s sasscore era, and they make it sound as fresh as current chaotic, sassy hardcore leaders like SeeYouSpaceCowboy and For Your Health. The song sounds like The Blood Brothers on a bad acid trip, and it goes even harder than that description sounds on paper. Listen and check out the album art below.
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25 Chaotic Hardcore, Mathcore & Sasscore Albums from the 2000s That Are Seminal Today
Black Cat #13 – I Blast Off! (2000)
The Sawtooth Grin – Cuddlemonster (2001)
Racebannon – In the Grips of the Light (2002)
The Blood Brothers – March On Electric Children (2002)
Orchid – Orchid (aka “Gatefold”) (2002)
Since By Man – We Sing the Body Electric (2003)
"We sing the body electric/Sickness says hold on/Would you like to dance, dance, dance?"
That's how Since By Man open "A Kid Who Tells on Another Kid is a Dead Kid" (probably an Over the Edge reference but not a Nation of Ulysses cover), with Sam Macon raising his voice to a harsh shriek on "dance, dance, dance" and totally embodying flamboyant hardcore in the process. That line also gives this Milwaukee band's Revelation-released debut LP its title, and -- for a subgenre that prides itself on shamelessly verbose poetry -- it makes sense that a band would name their album after a Whitman poem. Throughout We Sing the Body Electric, Since By Man deliver a shapeshifting soundscape that bounces between melodic math riffs, clean-sung hooks, and bludgeoning metalcore, sounding like a cross between The Blood Brothers, Botch, and Poison The Well (who Since By Man guitarist Brad Clifford later joined). It's often a fast, frenzied, constantly-in-motion record, but it sets itself apart from dime-a-dozen mathcore with a few atmospheric, slow-burning songs that veer closer to Jupiter-era Cave In. I don't know if this particular album is a big influence on the current punk scene or not, but it sure sounds like it could be; it combines a lot of different sounds that have been coming to prominence in recent years. Some parts of this album sound like early 2000s post-hardcore in a nutshell, but other times it feels genuinely ahead of its time.