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Alement – “Banished Sphere” LP
The Philadelphia, PA crust punks are back, five years since their Onward 12″ EP, here is their first full length album of seven perfectly honed tracks in the UK tradition dirt-core axe grinding. The stench is strong with this three-piece. From the first track you can hear the familiar Axegrinder/Deviated Instinct influence, quickly slipping into a stampeding gallop of early Sacrilege/English Dogs; while the vocalist channels and emulates the vibes of roaring into the dark, apocalyptic hell-scape, as once mastered by that Mr Aphid Baron on a desolate hill-top somewhere outside of Tavistock in the winter of 1982. If this sounds a bit derivative, in a way, absolutely, yes, it is, but that’s ok, the musical skills on display here achieves the same kind of restoration and re-creation that make Flower and Swordweilder so exciting and fresh. Safe hands reshaping old familiar into new familiar, I have no problem enthusing over the end result.
