Reviews

Queens, New York’s thugcore champions shit out a boring album laced with disturbingly mainstream and conservative viewpoints.  Do we need a drop-tuned chug-fest of simple tunes about how great American is and the threat posed by foreigners?  Hasn’t Nashville got this angle pretty much on lock? This is Madball or No Innocent Victim minus style and fun plus what passes these days for a squealing metal riff or two.
 
There is one shining highlight though, on an otherwise repetitive meatheaded beatdown of an album: a joke(?) song “We Hate,” whose chorus is thus - “We hate your music/ we hate you too/ We have our reasons/ for what we do./  You cannot hide/ You stupid fucks/ we really think- your music sucks!”  As a humorous self-aware reference to their own closed-mindedness, this song is brilliant; perfectly parodying the insular Ozzfest mentality.  If the tone is supposed to be one of seriousness however, then a new low has been reached.
 
Sworn Enemy: recently ex-major label, obliquely Christian-agenda pushing, reactionist post-9/11 pro-war Americans. They are also great for homophobic quotes such as this from asice.net’s SE interview: “Paul: Nothing gay or fag shit, we play real music.”  Sound like people you want over for dinner?  Yeah, me neither.  I never want to hear this again. And one more thing:  “I really think - your music sucks.”