SLAN "Ägd" LP

SLAN "Ägd" LP

12 ripping inches and 16 tracks of pure Stockholms Mangel the way it should be!

LP on black vinyl in heavy board sleeve with 2 sided 12x12 insert.
Euro Import.

Sweden, the country where playing ANTI-CIMEX lulls children to sleep. There is certainly no shortage of hardcore bands up there, and here comes a new contender in the notorious and much contested “fast and furious käng” category. SLAN is from Gothenburg and includes members of the rather good STRUL (in a SKITKIDS way), among other bands that I am not going to pretend I actually know. Their first EP Skiter I Allt released last year was a definite scorcher if you like your Scandicore on the mangel side of things (by which I mean more on the faster, MOB 47 side) if you want to be anal about it, and they are back in business with a full-length entitled Ägd. The recipe hasn’t changed much, but the production is a tad rawer and the vocals more upfront. While the EP had a definite ’80s Stockholm feel to my impeccable ears, the LP makes me think of a dirtier version of KRIGSHOT as well because SLAN manages to play that fast, and of Uppsala bands like CUMBRAGE or even of early VICTIMS in the singing style. It is a seriously raging, direct high-energy effort with some class riffing, but I can’t help but find the LP a little long for this style of punk with a playtime of almost twenty-four minutes (and everyone knows we have a twenty-minute attention span these days, if that). At the end of the day, yet another hard-hitting win from Sweden. - MRR

TRACKLIST:

A1 Stanken Av Döda Kroppar
A2 Med Rädsla Som Styrning
A3 Maktgalen Galning
A4 Den Stora Alfan
A5 Ignonerad, Förlöjligad Och Hånad
A6 Prippsblåa Ögon
A7 Under Piskan
A8 Ägd
B1 Slav Tills Du Dör
B2 Fulkultur
B3 Fullt Ställ
B4 Dynga Sprids
B5 Gubbjävel
B6 Jesusfreak
B7 In Absentia
B8 Krossa SD