Torture EP

Weekend Nachos were one of the first bands of the new wave of powerviolence. While the original powerviolence bands tended to have slow hardcore moments that kinda sounded like sludge metal these new powerviolence bands have parts that are more actually sludge metal. This combined with other more modern hardcore and NYHC elements have let to people calling a lot of these bands as jock powerviolence. And yeah you guessed it, this not something they mean in a positive way. I think it is kinda bullshit myself as a lot of the original powerviolence stuff was not all that serious as often people pretended it to be. I mean just look at PV legends Spazz. Not every punk band has to be all about ultra deep social commentary all the time. Yeah sure the relative lightheartedness influences the music but really it is still a real powerviolence band with all the real elements that make powerviolence one of my favourite music genres.

In the end the light heartedness makes it so that the focus is more on the music right here, right now. If Capitalist Casualties are the expression of anger and frustration with the larger scheme of things. This band and this EP included is the incarnation of when you go out with your mates to a gig , drink a pint. to have some fun and to forget about all the minor annoyances in daily life we all have. The annoyances that bother you more than should instead of the stone faced acceptance of our mundane irrelevant existence. Both have their place in the hardcore world in my opinion.

This EP is the first non demo release of WN. This is actually quite apparent. The band already found their Infest meets Eyehategod in a NYHC bar sound. Essentially WN would not really drastically change much through the rest of their career. They would add a few more slow “mosh” sections I guess but that is really about it. However the band is not quite there yet in terms of refinement. The ideas and everything are generally quite decent but everything lacks the real killing punch that would make the latter records some top level PV. It is not a release made obsolete by what the band would do later on. Still it is a release that is better than most in the genre. The tunes are still fun and the runtime is short of course anyway.