Punish and Destroy

Weekend Nachos were one of the first powerviolence bands that I discovered and still today are one of my favorites. They are a fairly typical example of modern powerviolence, combining the well known formula of mixing fast passages with slow passages. They also got this vocal style you can often hear in this genre, which is a weird form of hardcore shout which sounds kind of like something is stuck in the throat of the vocalist. I like it myself but I doubt everyone does.

Punish and Destroy was the first full length these blokes released back in 2007. Although I have to add that the last 17 tracks on here actually are from the Torture EP that they released 2 years before they put out this album.

While I do prefer the albums they made after this one. They already had their basic formula down here. Varied songs with tempo changes, heavy as hell sludge parts, raging fast powerviolence parts mid tempo hardcore rockers. Their later records basically expand on various elements already found here. They are also plain good songwriters. They know when to shift gears drastically in terms of both increasing the tempo as slowing all the way down. If you like to mosh this is perfect for some of that. The sound also is really damn good for a debut album. Everything sounds full and powerful. The bonus tracks from the EP also sound good but a bit rawer.

If you are new to powerviolence this is a good record to start with. This is very well produced and not as rampantly chaotic as some of the more extreme bands like say Sick/Tired or my personal favorite modern powerviolence band The Afternoon Gentlemen. They already show that they are skilled song and riff writers here and they would only get better at that game. Come on and join us in the pit.