Ελληνικά
Last Updated on 10:05 AM by Nikos Nakos
Genre: Hardcore/Crust
Country: Poland
Label: 783 Landsberg Hardcore Crew
Year: 2015 (2013)
The homonymous album of Polish band Herdia Profunda was released in 2013 with a limited distribiution as it seems, and only two years later in 2015, and after the succesful split with Hell Bastard, the album was rereleased to the joy of all of this music’s fans. The explosive mixture of hardcore/crust the Polish play has nothing new to offer musicwise, although truth is we are not looking for inventors or explorers when we are buying a record, so let’s stop fooling ourselves that we are looking for something new. The duration of the album is 22 minutes and the bigger song/intro (almost 3 minutes) is hypnotizing you before HP unleash their anger through your speakers. The rest of the album is full of energy, dynamic drumming and punk ethics that combined with the outworldly vocals and the thrash and even some death elements create an exceptional outcome. Their lyrics are along left antifascist lines that I cannot judge since it is in their mother tongue. The highlight is “Pierwsi du Gazu” that starts with a sample from Tarantino’s “Inglourious Bastards” and more especially from the scene where Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine addressing to his comrades says: “Nazi ain’t got no humanity. They ‘re the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin’, mass-murderin’ maniac and they need to be destroyed…” and then a totally out of tune bass kicks in and all hell breaks loose… what an epic! In general, this album has very well crafted songs, it is not a case of kick in – break everything – leave the place in ruins, many things are going on and mostly they know how to shuffle the cards and mix elements from relative branches of the extreme sound. If the lyrics were in English, for sure they would get more attention, they deserve it in any case. The songs who stand out for me are “Paraliż”, “Zamach Bombowy”, “Pierwsi do gazu” and the closing “Waira na Sprzedaz”, which also begins with a phrase from biologist, writer and media commentator Richard Dawkins: “the process of non-thinking called faith”, which essentially is about “The Root of All Evil?”, that later was renamed to “The God Illusion”, a tv documentary that was written and presented by Dawkins (it became a book also), in which there is the discussion whether humanity would be better off without religions or faith in any of the gods…
4/6
