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Reviews
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KKKK
1000 HERTZ aren't pissing about. The blast of tumbling
drums, juddering guitars and screamed vocals that open their debut
album are a gutteral call to arms, a violent and brutal explosion
of punk vitriol and hardcore catharsis. It's something they maintain,
with impressive fury, for the rest of the album - lyrics spat
as if in a back alley fight, guitars raging. It's anger directed
at their circumstances, at their suburban lives and the malcontent
with which they view them. But such is the bile here, that it's
a relief when the occasional burst of melody is slipped into their
outbursts, a brief velvet glove in which to sheathe their iron
fist.
Rocksound
8/10
The problem with the success of a band like gallows
is the shower of faux-punk shit that will inevitably follow. 1000
Hertz though, while quite blatantly ploughing the same angry-faced
furrow, deliver a shot of venom that sounds as genuine as it does
deadly. Blessed with attitude, spirit , some of the spikiest guitars
a UK band has ever mustered up, and a frontman who clearly doesn't
care for his vocal cords, 1KHZ still look set to bash the punk
scene square in the face. Good Stuff.
Big
Cheese 4/5
Proud, new, uncompromising hardcore.
This is a truly shredding hardcore debut album, in which 1000
Hertz more than deliver the goods. Smart lyrics, a fuck you attitude,
ground shaking tunes and John’s gargling-with-bleach vocals
make for a fearsome package, 1000 Hertz are here to make your
ears bleed, and with recent success of the Gallows, their timing
couldn’t be better.
Mass
Movement / Sub
Culture
Another one of those bands here that are starting
to make waves in the hardcore scene and come at you from the label
that brought you great past releases from the likes of Send More
Paramedics, Gallows, Errander, Sanzen, Shaped By Fate etc.
I have heard a lot of people say negative stuff like they are
sounding too much like the Gallows and are trying to ride their
coat tails. To that I say go and die because where I do see the
similarity to the Gallows they have their own style and sound
that sets them apart from the Gallows and to be fair there is
a lot of music in what is called the “hardcore” scene
today that is talentless, watered down, generic and safety music
to be fair that gets overlooked at how boring it is but this is
not like that and is not boring by any means.
The first track “Give Me An Amen!” hits you square
between the eyes and continues to bombard your ears to bleeding
death until it’s end. This along with tracks like Wake Up
Call and Down And Out sounded a lot like Gallows meeting The Bronx
and Ghost Of A Thousand in a dark alley on a fresh moonlit evening
for a bare knuckle last man standing brawl for all. That is not
all that you get as there are tracks that have elements that sound
like Anti Flag and Snuff meeting Compulsion (now that’s
a name from quite a few years ago) with a huge catchy rock and
roll hit to it along with some great traditional punk feel moments
to it. In fact I don’t think these can be lumped into the
new hardcore bracket as there are hints to many different genres
that would make them sit uneasy in most pigeon holes and to me
that’s a good thing. I think these will end up going far
and good luck to them I say.
In
It For The Money
1000 Hertz are awesome. 2006 and most of 2007 has
seen the rise of a LOT of crappy prissy ‘boo-hoo poor me’
bands that call themselves ‘hardcore’ or ‘punk’
without actually understanding either genre. We’re sick
of it. But the thing with all these charlatans is, when a band
comes along which genuinely has passion and is in tune with the
scene it sticks out like a sore thumb.
1000
Hertz are a mixture of fast thrashy hardcore and the more aggressive
side of trad punk. The singer has got a perfect scream for the
type of music they are playing and can also pull of some pretty
cool punky choruses. The balance of hardcore and punk is a good
one, and works surprisingly well.
Nothing massively original here but something that strikes me
as pretty honest. If you’re into faster metal and hardcore
bands like Converge and Planes Mistaken For Stars, and also like
a bit of proper punk, then you may well find something here worth
checking out. If not they are worth checking out just to hear
some honest music with balls.
Live4Metal
So you like punk do you? You like hardcore do
you? Still a metal fan too? Excellent, now you can go and buy
this album and make sure it’s listened to. 1000 Hertz are
finding themselves emerging from the rather perpendicular-grid-roundabout-infested
town (or is it a city now?) of Milton Keynes. A hellhole to drive
in and indeed frequent on Friday nights or weekend evenings thanks
to the binge infiltrators that horde the streets and bars from
early p.m. to early a.m. (I know, I used to do that once upon
a time). To have a band come out of such a dank and deprived place
filled with retail-torture-parlours is something of a miracle,
but 1000 Hertz have managed to give us something more than just
a hub of
mindless activity.
“Understanding that cool is not an aspiration” allows
for us to delve a bit deeper into the psyche of 1000 Hertz and
what they stand for when it comes to ideals and their personal
ethos. “This music is for thinkers and shakers, movers and
breakers” and it would seem that with this element of being
a band with more to say than just be cool when you’re edging
in the pit 1000 Hertz continue to break on through.
I’m not saying this is the definitive and best album out
there when it comes to hardcore or even punk, but at the same
time it’s not the worst thing I’ve heard in a while.
In fact it’s pretty damn good compared to most of the stuff
I’ve got through the post. Twelve tracks in length isn’t
a lot of music but don’t be fooled, the album managed to
stretch itself for an appropriate amount of time before becoming
epic. Silence Means Everything, Wake Up Call, Immobilised and
Fallen Ground are tracks to really look out for.
You’re bound to enjoy this album more than what’s
out now in the world of commercial, I can say that once an album
goes into shops, music. So go check out 1000 Hertz and be impressed
with them at every listen.
More
Haste Less Speed 4/5
In At The Deep End Records seems like the best
record label in the UK to find yourself a new in your face screamo
band with punk attitude and the band that most people will know
In At The Deep End Records for is the Gallows and rightly so as
the Gallows started off on In At The Deep End Records before they
found the success they are enjoying now and re-released their
album on major label Warner. The next best band on In At The Deep
End Records has to be Milton Keynes based four piece 1000 Hertz,
they are fast and furious and have such a loud and hectic hardcore
punk sound about them and are true musicians who care all about
the music and couldn’t give a fuck about the latest fashion
and image like most bands these days do.
1000 Hertz debut album Input The Output opens up with 'Give Me
An Amen!!' and what an opening to the album; the song is fast,
raw, aggressive, in your face hardcore punk rock from start to
finish and vocalist John's vocals feel as strong and deadly as
a punch in the face from Ricky Hatton.
'Wake Up Call' is a short song clocking in at just under 2 minutes
but the band achieve so much in that time and the forever changing
vocals really help the song stand out making it one of my favourite
songs on the album. 'Systems Fail' is another stand out song mainly
due to the forever changing vocals again and the fact that so
much is going on throughout the song and the solo drumming outro.
The whole album is outstanding and played at 100 mile's per hour
with maximum effort and attitude and the good thing is that the
band have managed to make each and every song sound so much different
to the last whilst keeping the extreme heaviness. 'Input The Output'
is the kind of album that makes you want to bounce off the walls
and smash things up due to the brutalness of it and I’m
sure it’s even better experienced live.
1000 Hertz couldn’t of picked a better time to come on the
scene and let’s hope they follow on the success of ex label
mates the Gallows and show the world that UK punk is back from
the dead.
Sleazegrinder
Another acute pincer-punk hardcore hailstorm, fittingly
and rather fantabulously from Fuckston, Fuckshire, UK (I reckon
somewhere round the Midlands), uglier even than current UK emo-mashing
merchants Gallows, this is a frantic signal of discontent to failing
systems, redundant modernism and ‘fake smiles and soundbites’
that hauls eighties metallic masochism into a present it vaguely
recognises but instinctively knows is the same old teeth-rotting
cereal re-branded sugar-free, summed up succinctly in A Grave
Fit, Made And Dug For A Nation. Structured like a somersaulting
sky-diver who, upon landing, has to endure the old knife-knuckle
dance then a bout of Russian roulette that would un-nerve De Niro’s
character in ‘The Deer Hunter’ their off-kilter frequencies
and passionate discharges reflect schisms political and personal
while also simply fucking rockin’ with a resonance and channelled-adrenalin
rage that should flay the Rod Stewart hair off the emo-screamo
lot. Scream for me Fucksters!
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