The inimitable Iron Lung Records brings us one of 2025's best pure hardcore punk LPs with New Jersey's ACID CASUALTIES. They've been a little enigmatic despite also being based in the tri-state area, I guess due to logistical constraints limiting their activity over the past few years both in terms of playing local gigs and writing/recording. So this one sort of came out of nowhere for me. In terms of the actual sound, it is pretty much just straight up unadulterated 80s USHC at its most vicious and frantic, as you'd expect for a band taking its name from a KORO song, but I also hear a bit of Swedish influence in some of the riffs. "Derelict Dog" comes to mind in that regard. There aren't any bands I can think of in the region doing this style of hardcore this well, and it's right up my alley, so I'm pretty siked about this record and (hopefully) getting to see them play more shows around here too.
Fav tracks: Derelict Dog, Acid Casualty
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