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USA Nails, from London, makes the kind of punk rock that is as topical as punk rock at its best always has been - direct, with hooks that don't let you go, with a sarcastic kind of humour and lyrical topics that are sometimes typically British but often typical for western society as we know it. One could say that on a superficial level the musical parallel to a band like Idles is apparent, or say Mclusky. Yet, loud and angry and sometimes blunt, USA Nails' noise always has their own nuance to it, an undertone. Add to that a love for no-wave and noise rock and you have a band that sounds like none other.
The band's gigs are truly something else. Anecdote time: Last year they played the Best Kept Secret festival in the wee hours. With an audience wilder than at any of the other gigs on the festival, the band conveyed an energy that was welcomed by a crowd standing centimeters or less away from the band. At a certain point, an audience member bumped (or was thrown) in the direction singer/guitarist Steven, who subsequently got his guitar in his face mid-song. The punch was apparently too much for the guitar but not for Steven who only seemed more energetic while continuing to do the vocals of the song and the rest of the gig, that still stood tall with one guitar less.
With members that previously played or still play in Oceansize, Kong, Future of the Left and Silent Front, the band members have all that it takes to take their music to the next level. The fourth album Life Cinema will be released on May 10th though Hex, Dipped in Gold and Bigoût.
http://usanails.bandcamp.com/
On tour with USA Nails is Dead Arms, conveniently sharing one member. Dead Arms is another band whose members have years of experience in playing In UK underground bands; Death Pedals, Los Bitchos, Roll Call For The Second Site, It Often Takes A War. Their music, similarly to USA Nails, is not for the faint hearted, yet moves closer to garage rock territory. Of the vilest kind, that is.
Dead Arms also is coming along with their new album, titled Simply Dead, and speaking purely speculatively, it sounds like a reference to a ginger-haired singer that had big hits in the 80s and 90s. Imagine the polar aural opposite of his sound and, again, purely speculatively speaking, you're presumably close to how that album is going to sound.
https://deadarms.bandcamp.com/
Fine China Superbone from The Hague, Amersfoort and Amsterdam, has just released their new album titled Plaguey, recorded at Bear Bites Horse Studio of Wayne Adams, where both USA Nails and Dead Arms also recorded their albums.
https://finechinasuperbone.bandcamp.com/
KLÄMP is the sound of three escaped Brits holed up in the legendary Hague Bunker, waiting out what some might call the terrible decisions of the political class. Dirty fuzzed out noise recorded in a building literally called Dystopia. If that’s not a description I don’t know what is. Former members of Mugstar, Manatees and Geisha.
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Dead Arms Biography
Formed after the washed-out ending of Wet T-Shirt Competition (a band that got together after one drunken photograph at an ATP festival made us look “like we should be in a band” and actually managed to play the grand total of 3 gigs), Dead Arms retained bassist Danny 5 Bands (USA Nails), guitarist Phil Glitter (Death Pedals) and “vocalist” General Waste (It Often Takes A War) and recruited long term buddy and fellow Gamesmaster enthusiast Kitty Techno (November Fleet) on drums and started taking stuff (a little) more seriously.
With only 5 songs actually worth salvaging we set about creating a new ten song set that could be played in under 30mins (so we could get back to the bar) and would eventually form the entirety of our debut album ambitiously entitled ‘All The Hits’.
Taking cues from the likes of Hot Snakes, The Stooges and Nirvana we started hammering out aggressive straight ahead garage punk that wasn’t afraid to entice our audience to shake their butts and was a far cry from our more discordant peers in the London DIY scene that we’d all been an active part in for so long. (Amusingly, no one actually thinks we sound like any of those guys and instead hear tinges of The Jesus Lizard, OFF! and Part Chimp in our sound).
Having been putting on shows and playing in bands for well over a decade we’ve grown up with the ethos of DIY most eloquently described in the seminal music tome ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life’. Our former drummer in Wet T-Shirt Competition Dave Maintenance records, mixes and produces all our music in his hand built studio Bear Bites Horse in East London, Danny designs all our artwork, Phil organises all our gigs and hand-made all the CD sleeves for our album and Kitty and the General mess about repeating the same annoying jokes to each other to keep (their own) spirits high between sausage roll breaks.
Come see us play sometime.
DEAD ARMS x
REVIEWS:
"Dead Arms came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire, they started invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. These included raids or invasions of the Kara-Khitan Khanate, Caucasus, Western Xia and Jin dynasties, and Hackney. These campaigns were often accompanied by wholesale massacres of the civilian populations – especially in the Khwarezmian controlled lands. By 2012, Dead Arms occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China. And now have a new drummer."
(Andy Secher - Hit Paraderl)
"Some hot s**t noise-punk with a bass heavy Am Reptile underbelly, DEAD ARMS are thunderous...Part JESUS LIZARD, PART BLACK WIDOWS, a dash of DRUG CHURCH...all in your face, On tracks like "Superman, F**k You" , the rhythm section simply rumbles with a garage punk foundation, Oodles of style points for sounding like that one band you just can't place; a testament to rolling in influences without cloning a particular sound. Cool noise that's a chunky and hearty meal..."
(Michael F. via Bandcamp)
"Pure aural filth. Love it."
(Ed Williams esq. from A Badge Of Friendship)
Read MoreWith only 5 songs actually worth salvaging we set about creating a new ten song set that could be played in under 30mins (so we could get back to the bar) and would eventually form the entirety of our debut album ambitiously entitled ‘All The Hits’.
Taking cues from the likes of Hot Snakes, The Stooges and Nirvana we started hammering out aggressive straight ahead garage punk that wasn’t afraid to entice our audience to shake their butts and was a far cry from our more discordant peers in the London DIY scene that we’d all been an active part in for so long. (Amusingly, no one actually thinks we sound like any of those guys and instead hear tinges of The Jesus Lizard, OFF! and Part Chimp in our sound).
Having been putting on shows and playing in bands for well over a decade we’ve grown up with the ethos of DIY most eloquently described in the seminal music tome ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life’. Our former drummer in Wet T-Shirt Competition Dave Maintenance records, mixes and produces all our music in his hand built studio Bear Bites Horse in East London, Danny designs all our artwork, Phil organises all our gigs and hand-made all the CD sleeves for our album and Kitty and the General mess about repeating the same annoying jokes to each other to keep (their own) spirits high between sausage roll breaks.
Come see us play sometime.
DEAD ARMS x
REVIEWS:
"Dead Arms came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire, they started invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. These included raids or invasions of the Kara-Khitan Khanate, Caucasus, Western Xia and Jin dynasties, and Hackney. These campaigns were often accompanied by wholesale massacres of the civilian populations – especially in the Khwarezmian controlled lands. By 2012, Dead Arms occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China. And now have a new drummer."
(Andy Secher - Hit Paraderl)
"Some hot s**t noise-punk with a bass heavy Am Reptile underbelly, DEAD ARMS are thunderous...Part JESUS LIZARD, PART BLACK WIDOWS, a dash of DRUG CHURCH...all in your face, On tracks like "Superman, F**k You" , the rhythm section simply rumbles with a garage punk foundation, Oodles of style points for sounding like that one band you just can't place; a testament to rolling in influences without cloning a particular sound. Cool noise that's a chunky and hearty meal..."
(Michael F. via Bandcamp)
"Pure aural filth. Love it."
(Ed Williams esq. from A Badge Of Friendship)
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