‘Accumulated stress and frustration, Your mind full of noise, Let us hold tightly the hand that reaches out to the future, and liberate it’ (Discharge Your Noise)

Contrast Attitude, who come from Mie in Japan, have been unleashing a barbarous raw punk barrage for over two decades now. And, while they have a released an array of EPs and splits during this time, Discharge Your Noise is only the band’s second full-length, following their 2009 debut album, Apocalyptic Raw Assault.

And from the venomous riff that propels the aptly titled opening track, Relentless Assault, it is abundantly clear that the trio’s ferocity is as untamed as it ever was.  The bleakly distorted guitar retains a satisfying muscularity amid the dissonance and recklessly unhinged solos, as the swaggering rhythm section injects a notable rock’n’roll swagger to the savage fusillade.

Meanwhile, the harsh, barked vocals explore a world shaped by indifference and complicit silence in the face of social oppression and accelerating climatic meltdown.  However, it is not a narrative entirely without hope, remaining defiant that an alternative future can be realised.  Along with the opener, personal stand outs are the choppily surging Disclose Naked Myself and the bruising groove of the title track.