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 about for launch on the sixteenth and options new tunes in addition to remixes by Planet B and Made by Human Arms. The band’s bio unashamedly describes them as “remaining anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist, amongst the various different issues that fall into these frameworks. Subjects addressed on this launch embody draconian abortion legal guidelines, washed up comedians who can’t deal with 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 navy indoctrination, and being an individual of coloration in a white-dominated subculture.”
Says guitarist Ben Rudolph about “Salbahe Ako,” the observe we’re premiering at the moment: “The title interprets to “I’m savage” in Tagalog and offers with being a girl of coloration 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 observe for the document as it’s relentless all through. We tried to push ourselves on this one in making an attempt do some issues we haven’t previously. A medley of noise rock, hardcore and dying steel all rolled into one.”
Test ‘em out within the Chicago space on Might 11 on the Backside lounge w/ Converge, Massive Snigger and Hell is Actual.
*photograph by Ricardo Adame
