SCALPESkillful Butchers

Label: Sorry State
  • LP lim
    20,00 
    Includes 19% MwSt.
SKU: 018287 Release Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021

Description

Skillful Butchers is the new album from New York City’s Scalple, their first for Sorry State. Since Scalple’s 2018 12” on Roach Leg Records, they’ve expanded to a five-piece and changed their sound, moving toward the thrash-and-mosh dynamics of late 80s UK hardcore bands like Heresy, Ripcord, and Concrete Sox. Those bands took their inspiration from early 80s US hardcore, and just as the sound changed when those bands carried it across the pond, Scalple infuses this style with the filth, grime, and frustration they soak up walking New York City’s streets. More than just a well-timed throwback, Skillful Butchers ups their inspirations’ ante in terms of intensity and precision, and adds new wrinkles like the blistering metallic lead guitars and the crunching industrial interludes courtesy Maggot Champagne, aka Pharmakon. However you categorize it, Skillful Butchers is a great hardcore record, packed with memorable songs and riffs destined to get the pit moving as the world remembers how to mosh.

Tracks

01. The Real Criminal
02. Wretched Souls
03. Courtesy Professionalism Respect
04. Skillful Butchers / Lost Children
05. Grim Outlook
06. Lying Through Your Teeth
07. Semblance of Terror
08. Behind the Service Weapon
09. Slaughter Bezos
10. One Last Laugh