TRAMADOL – s/t 7″EP

A band to treat moderate to severe pain. Following the 2021 demo released in the dying days of the pandemic, West Yorkshire’s finest are back to deliver your booster shot of Hardcore with a capital H. Proof that the UK’s best live band can translate their frenetic energy to record, it also demonstrates that to be genuinely influenced by “See Nothing…” DISCHARGE should and can be more than D-beat box-ticking. If MECHT MENSCH, CONDOMINIUM and TOTALITAR collaborated on a bad night out, it would sound something like this. Lemmy basslines, whirlwind drum rolls, a relentless twin-guitar attack, deceptively catchy vocal hooks. For TRAMADOL, repetition becomes a route to transcendence and simplicity a mask to murkier depths. As the world goes to shit, TRAMADOL provides your last chance to clench your fist and bang your head into oblivion, free of guilt as the central nervous system shuts down. No feeble bastards need apply. – Rob Tyers