CLCKWS - Sheep (Guest Review By Billy Ouka)

  Billy Ouka (aka Simon Geddes) returns today with a recommendation for a song he heard on a recent Just Some Punk Songs show. You can check out more of the music he loves at his Youth Club Disco : https://www.facebook.com/billy.ouka/

  CLCKWS are a "four piece human-fronted hardcore punk band" from Zoersel & Antwerp featuring a line up of Jef Krieckemans (drums), Damien Gillain (bass), Neb Provo  (guitar) and Seppe Van Ael (vocals). Since their 2018 debut release, Counter Clockwise, it's been turbulent times for the band with the departure of vocalist Eva Van der Schoot (her replacement Seppe stepping up from bass duties) and drummer Carlos Verbruggen but this doesn't appear to have knocked them out of their stride as recent album Popular Polarization proves. 10 tracks of top notch Belgian punk that's available on tape from Nosebleed Records, vinyl from Nosebleed Records, Mosh Potatoes, Loner Cult Records, Dead Punx Records & Smithsfoodgroup DIY and digitally from Bandcamp :   https://clckws.bandcamp.com/album/popular-polarization

  And now over to Billy for a few words on the song that's getting highlighted today....

  CLCKWS Sheep is a burst of energy, comprising of quick, sharp guitar riffs and a drum assault, half way through the song stops, slows down, add some baa's, went down well in the chat room, before speeding up to a climatic end, reminded me very much of the underground bands on the squat scene, late 80's early 90's, (Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys especially) a Belgium band playing a brutal hardcore punk at breakneck speeds. A part of the Brutal Belgium scene, (unable to find any info, good name though) so if you want a quick burst of punk rock energy, give it a blast!

  This is Sheep...

Believe in just one man, with one mighty show plan.
Built by lost stories, for men only glory.
To follow his voice, no other right choices.
Now kneel on your knees, for power he pleads.

Religion, the herder, of sheep.
Your god, your master, skindeep.
Religion, the herder, of sheep.
Your god, your master, asleep.

Wake up, wake up, it's losing control.
Divided by dogmas will fuck up us all.
Let people be human, why ruin our free speech.
I don't need this treason, god's life-sucking leech.

Religion, the herder, of sheep.
Your god, your master, skindeep.
Religion, the herder, of sheep.
Your god, your master, your almighty chief!

No invisible man could say what I should do, not even if he wrote it in a book.
You know cinema is fiction, it's the same with religion.
You're creating distance, get out of our system!