Long Knife - Scum

  

  This one will batter you senseless...

  Portland (Oregon) hardcore punk outfit Long Knife (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063538089363) return to Just Some Punk Songs today with a choice cut from their brutal new album Curb Stomp Earth. (Their previous 2 appearances are here if you want to catch up  https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2018/01/long-knife-tower.html

https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/08/long-knife-rough-liver.html).

  Mixing 80's hardcore with flourishes of classic rock, they describe themselves as being akin to "Kiss playing Poison Idea, with a healthy amount of Japanese hardcore and even some British hardcore thrown in." As I mentioned above, they're pretty brutal BUT (and this is important) they incorporate enough melody and tunes into their ferocious noise to make it palatable to ears as delicate as mine (I'm not a massive fan of hardcore that eschews melody in favour of all out assault but these guys get the mix pretty much spot on). 

  The album kicks of with something sounding like a host of heavenly heralds welcoming us to the messiahs of hardcore punk but they soon leave the scene and let the mayhem ensue. From this moment on, it's a pedal to the metal, aural assault. The album's available on vinyl via Beach Impediment Records https://beachimpedimentrecords.bigcartel.com/product/long-knife-curb-stomp-earth-lp and Black Water Records https://blackwaterpdx.com/store/product/long-knife-curb-stomp-earth/ as well as on digital download : https://longknife.bandcamp.com/album/curb-stomp-earth

  I played the title track on a recent show, today I'll feature their new video. This is Scum... 

Long Knife - Rough Liver

  Long Knife (https://www.facebook.com/Long-Knife-442092905821411) are the Portland, Oregon, hardcore punks who last featured on here with a track from their 2017 ep Sewers Of Babylon (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2018/01/long-knife-tower.html).

  They return today with the video for the flipside to their excellent Night Of The Hunter single. The 7" and digital download are available from Beach Impediment Records :   https://beachimpedimentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/night-of-the-hunter-b-w-rough-liver

  The songs are blazing a trail for the band's upcoming new album and do a great job of hyping up expectations. If you like your music down and dirty with gravel infused vocals and plenty of in your face riffage then this is for you.

  The video you'll see below features clips of fans singing the chorus and I have to say they do a better job than I did on the recent Before They Are Hanged single Ground Down (compare and contrast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f21SrKFJvCI).

  This is Rough Liver...

Long Knife - The Tower

 

  Hopefully you all checked out the 2 Just Some Punk Songs Best Of 2017 shows that highlighted some of last year's most enjoyable releases. Obviously there were plenty of other great shows highlighting music from 2017, a couple were hosted by Wayne Elliott and it's one of the songs that he played that I'm posting today. If you want to check out the show that featured it (and I recommend you do so) it's saved here...  https://www.mixcloud.com/Wayne_Elliott/pulsebeat-68-the-2017-review-show-part-one/ 

  Long Knife are one of many great bands that have graced this blog that are from Portland, Oregon. They're a hardcore punk 4 piece featuring Colin Jarrell (vocals), Scott Goto (guitars), Keith Testerman (drums) and Chris Reid (bass).     Testerman is a recent addition on drums after previously playing in bands such as Warcry, Lebenden Toten and Hellshock. Amongst their influences they list the likes of The Geto Boys, Cro-mags and Poison Idea.

  You can check out their earlier releases (including their 2 albums) here :   https://longknife.bandcamp.com/ but today's song is taken from last year's impressive Sewers Of Babylon ep which was released on Beach Impediment Records and is available here :   https://beachimpedimentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/long-knife-sewers-of-babylon-ep

  Regular visitors may have noticed that a couple of days ago Rich Cocksedge guest reviewed a song on here and it was he who reviewed the Sewers Of Babylon ep for Razorcake. He proclaimed it puncier and more melodic than their earlier work calling for people to join the Long Knife Appreciation Society otherwise they can consider themselves total dimwits. When people with immaculate taste such as Wayne and Rich are so impressed you really need to sit up and take notice.

  This song is called The Tower....