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Are you fan of speed? I'm a fan of speed. Speed is in this year and no one has more speed than Hayaino Daisuki. The super-metal trio's debut EP Headbanger's Karaoke Club Dangerous Fire straight up crackles in your hands, unfolding it's fire/hot metal chicks laden multi-puzzly-sleevebox thing. We're not talking about Origin/Braindrill/Marduk style speed here. We're talking about three grindthrashingblackpunk metalheads, Jon Chang (Discordance Axis, Gridlink), Matsubara (Mortalized) and Eric Schnee (dude, get a band), playing with enough urgent lunacy to outblast the worlds most metal drum machine. 500bpm or not.
I don't know why I love these guys so much. Maybe its because there so much love to go around so little material. At 14 minutes long, HbHCDF ends just in time to blue ball the listener, but maybe thats what keeps me coming back more more. (I was really going to write something very fucking stupid there.)
The formula is fairly textbook. Chang screeches, Schnee hammers, Matsubara shreds. Lots of bands use this formula, but lots of bands don't have Matsubara. Shame, because this dude is really awesome at guitar. He brings thrash, black metal, and dare I say it, pop, into the mix to come up with some of the catchiest, uplifting, neck wrecking riffs in the land. Chang's vocals are an aquired taste (one of my favorites), remaining consistent in his high-high register shriek. Extra point's to Schnee though for doing alot with a little. Also, in a refreshing turn of production, his kit sounds alive and breathing. (BEGONE YOU TRIGGERED, CLICKY, COMPRESSED AND SOULESS DRUMS!) In fact, the whole thing sounds like it was just tapped live off the rehearsal room floor, raw like dead carcass. Sure they teeter on the edge sometimes; the drums lose the beat for a moment or Matsubara misses one of the two million notes, but it all sounds so juicy. Juicy dead carcass.
Not much else needs to be said. Except an apology to anyone who thought this was going to be an undercover report on Japan's military resurgence. The truth is that the band is only have Japanese. The other half lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. Did you know they're name translates to "I love speed?" How awesome is that.
See for yourself.
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