The "Plagues... Walking Disease" CD (on Malfunction/Deathwish) combines the recently released "Plagues..." 7" with last year's "Walking Disease" 7"/CD from Sacramento, CA's Trash Talk. I wasn't familiar with this band prior to checking out this material, but they basically blaze straight through cut after cut of blisteringly fast-paced metallic hardcore with a little smidge of that grinding sort of powerviolence edge happening thanks to the sheer speed and blasting aggression present throughout. There's not a ton of metal in there, but they do offer up a great range of cohesive influences throughout, from straightforward old school-infused hardcore to some churning thrashiness, pounding midpaced breaks with some killer bass runs, and an overall sense of fierce, explosive energy—especially the maniacally screamed/yelled/shouted vocals, which are pretty fuckin' intense. And when I say that they blaze straight through, I'm not kidding: Few compositions top the minute mark, and most of those don't even hit a minute-and-a-half, so despite the collection's misleadingly lengthy 17-song tracklist, everything's over and out in just about 14 minutes. The listen is 100% consistent from start to finish, so it sounds like all of these tracks were recorded in the same session, but I'm not sure since there's no recording information or anything like that in the booklet—but it does fold out into a six-panel "poster" full of completely badass artwork, and all of the lyrics are on the flip side. Good stuff. That's all there is to it...
Trash Talk "Lepers to Feed the Lepers"
Trash Talk "Walking Disease"
Comments
Good stuff. Not *quite* up to the marketing’s promise, but good nonetheless. Maybe a little INFEST in there to my ears.
4.3.2008 | By Johnny
Cd has both seven inches Trash Talk has released: Plagues and Walking Disease. Good stuff.
4.3.2008 | By Samuli
nice, short and sweet.
4.3.2008 | By Adrianoso
I’ve been thrashing (ho ho) this recently. Absolutely loving it. Reminds me a bit of the NZ band Damaged but faster and a bit better…
4.3.2008 | By Nick
Plagues isn’t quite as good as Walking Disease, which is unfortunate. Decent band. Got an old-school Outbreak sound going on.
4.3.2008 | By Ryan @ Milkweed Records
Definitely has a bit of the Infest/Crossed Out/Drop Dead/Capitalist Casualties etc. vibe happening. Good to see that this style of hardcore’s still in rotation.
4.3.2008 | By manisthebastard
Overrated.
4.4.2008 | By Carl
Trash Talk sounds pretty good to me, both 7” that are on this cd are equally good, Plagues has parts of that sick heaviness also. There’s definitely strong Infest influences going on, good band and i’m looking forward to see them live.
4.8.2008 | By MarkusxKTL