Black Mercy/band Of Bastards
The Curse/american Carnage
Austin, TX-based outfits Black Mercy and Band Of Bastards team up to give listeners a glimpse of what lies beneath the local underground hardcore scene. The brutal and beautiful albums 16 songs clock in right around 25 minutes, breathing new life into the tradition of early '80s-early '90s punk, noise and hardcore music that has always sought to commune with the unsatisfied and disaffected.