WORLD WAR 4 - "DEMO 2" (Boston Hardcore thrashing mad again!!! - D.I.Y. Tape Release in 2014.)

WORLD WAR 4 - "DEMO 2"

("D.I.Y."; Tape)

(Running time: Six songs in around ten minutes.)

(Note: There are also plenty of downloads floating around through the web, but don't ask me if there's only one more or less official one - but especially in case you live outside the States then one of the download links is better than remaining without it, not at least after I am not so sure about any limitations of the Tape and if it's maybe already sold out or not... - and honestly I own it also just as a download MP3 version... it's hard to get your hands on stuff like this when you live in Germany and not in the States... but after I don't know of any anyhow official link I won't post any here and now, just search for yourself around the well-known (Blogger) sources and you should find one pretty soon.)

Here it is, the since something like two years now already again expected and awaited new WORLD WAR 4 release, their "DEMO 2", at least I have waited for it quite a long time (which means the mentioned two years now) and I would bet that I was not the only one. The guys of or in WORLD WAR 4 play beside WORLD WAR 4 also in pletny of other bands, like for example xNO TOLERANCEx that had been also featured some years ago up here on this blog with one of their back then current releases, and so enough of the namedropping and the talking about the past here, because what counts, what matters is only the here and now, and so here we go: And the first thing I can say is that WORLD WAR 4 definitely sticked to their style, sound, and approach, and this simply just rules. We get six new songs, with one of them being the intro track, "WAR-TRO", and another one being an outro stomper, "WW4-MARCH", so this makes four full or real or just proper new songs and this songs carry the titles of "MOVIN' ON", "SEE YA LATER", "SOCIETY'S WASTE", and "LEECH". Expect one hell of furious thrashing metallic Old School Hardcore Crossover inferno breaking loose right from the start, somewhere between S.O.D./M.O.D. and D.R.I. with some GANG GREEN and (early) PRO-PAIN as well as some (old) SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER (only a little bit), and CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER in it, and made round by Old School East Coast Thrash Metal like ANTHRAX, OVERKILL, and NUCLEAR ASSAULT, then you have a pretty good idea of what WORLD WAR 4 are all about. Expect them to do still their own stuff, so you won't find any copy'n'paste crap and instead of this a self-reliant band doing their own thing, and also expect it all to be fresh and up-to-date, so no lame and stale boring retro garbage will float through your ears and head while listening to the demo. Crushing and sawing, shredding and mercyless roaring guitars, great pissed off aggressive and harsh shouted lead vocals, a buzzing and ripping bass playing, and thundering drums really make the music, and cool songwriting, nice varying of the pace and groovin' rhythm structures they deliver as well, so you see, yes, it's all there what you can ask for, hm, and maybe even a bit more. Cool lyrics and a great Old School HC D.I.Y. artwork as well as a first class recording/production sound we get on top of it, so you see, it's the complete package. And even it's not blowing me exactly away like its precursor release two years ago it's still one hell of a great new offering by/from a band that's more than ready to release via a good label a proper full length album - finally!!! Even this is a very short review (I mean, it's also a very short release) I can only highly recommend this album to anyone into Old School Thrash/Hardcore Crossover, especially if you want that stuff in a new fresh and exciting dose and all delivered by a strong self-reliant still pretty young band. So go and get it. HARDCORE!!! FIST!!! /// Andy

(Rating: 9 of 10 points)

(Check this site out - and if Blogger again is refusing to follow my order to post this as a direct-link to the site you know anyhow how to get there: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/world-war-4.)

News: Concert Updates; Who's gonna buy me some flight tickets?!?

Oh man, how I would love to be there:
SHEER TERROR, SLAPSHOT alone, almighty billing,
and the DJ's, ha, one comment: Whoooaaaa!!!
BLIND JUSTICE and HEAVY CHAINS also rule.
And I would bet that VICE also rock.
This will be GREAT, for sure.
So, okay, who's buying me a flight ticket?!?

Also a damn great billing, and WORLD WAR 4
with their new demo album in their package,
and then also their first show ever. Beside them
xNO TOLERANCEx, BLIND JUSTICE, and the
BOSTON STRANGLER, only two words about it:
HELL YEAHR!!!
And I would bet that FIRE & ICE also know how to
kick ass, definitely.
So, again: Who's gonna buy me a flight ticket?!?

This will be also just GREAT, come on, I mean
AGNOSTIC FRONT and BANE alone, damn it,
this will be definitely damn fucking GREAT!!!
So, okay, for the last time here and now:
Who's gonna buy me a flight ticket now?!?

WORLD WAR IV - "DEMO 2012" (Old School Hardcore from out of Boston with a nuclear assaulting Thrash Metal influence the "D.I.Y." way in 2012 + Download Link)

WORLD WAR IV - "DEMO 2012"
("D.I.Y."; Tape & MP3-Download):

Here's a for what I do know a very new band that used to debut this very year, roaring from Boston, MA/U.S.A. and formed by members of the Boston Straight Edge Hardcore roughnecks in xNO TOLERANCEx (see respectively read just right here: http://manslaughterthuglife.blogspot.de/2012/03/no-tolerance-no-remorse-no-tolerance.html) and FLOORPUNCH, and this is their debut release that is officially physically released on Tape (for what I do know) at the "PHILADELPHIA HARDCORE FEST" 2012 as well as for those unable to go there and buy it physically as a official free MP3-Download, and after it's pretty impossible for me to go there and buy it I just have it as the above mentioned MP3-Downlaod and I will give you the download link at the end of this review, as usual in cases like this. I stumbled upon this band thanks to some fellow bloggers in the great blogs of "99 MILES OF BAD BLOGS" (http://99milesofbadblogs.blogspot.de/), the "HARBOILED HARDCORE WEBZINE" (http://www.hardboiledzine.com/) and "AMERICAN AFTERMATH" (http://americanaftermath.net/) and anyhow do yourself the favour and list the three mentioned blogs or sites in your list of favorite sites and links and visit them on a regular basis. And after this whole lot of introduction talking let's go straight ahead onward into this very review of this demo release, the debut of WORLD WAR IV. If you know xNO TOLERANCEx for example you better clear your thoughts and ears a bit, because beside the fact that both bands know about and know how to play really good Hardcore music (and so so) there aren't that many similarities. WORLD WAR IV play some stormy raging sharp edged and hard boiled fresh and lively not (!!!) boring retro Old School Hardcore or Thrashcore that reminds me quite a it of D.R.I. and S.O.D. as well as M.O.D., maybe some very few early PRO-PAIN and maybe the little bit later GANG GREEN with a undeniable 1980's U.S. American East Coast Thrash Metal influence like NUCLEAR ASSAULT as well as old ANTHRAX and maybe some very few old OVERKILL as well, and also some Old School slightly grinding early Old School Skatecore impressions like early SUICIDAL TENDENCIES and CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER are clealy to hear, at least if you ask me. But they do it all very fresh and very stand-alone, no dull and boring retro crap and no copying of anything or anyone, that's how it all should be done, so thumbs up for that. This all makes this demo that's filled with harsh thrashing, fast hitting and sharp cutting skilled hardcoreish as well as metallic great guitar work, fucking damn charismatic clear sung and still also hard shouted lead vocals, forceful shreddng bass playing and stunning fast and diverse and even blasting drums to one hell of an release ad surely a must have and in a only at least somehow anyhow "just" and "righteous" world this demo will soon be a underdround classic with a long life as a legend potential and this band would get soon a very good record deal, and hopefully this all will happen this way. And for now, get this demo, so far the "D.I.Y." release of the year, period. Great lyrics, a cool artwork and first class production sound on top of it as well. For any fans of real Hardcore as well as Hardcore Skater Maniacs and Metalheads that thankfully lack a too close minded mentality. Get this demo, enjoy it, support this bloody mighty band. Great work!!! HARDCORE!!! FIST!!! (10 of 10 points)

(Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?gl94z3gk6irv9u2)

(After I didn't get it done to find a what and where so ever bandsite the following link is the only somehow contact link I can give you... sorry...: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/world-war-4)