Hailing from New York / New Jersey, Immagini Postume (Posthumous Image) is Mirage’s debut EP and delivers a forceful onslaught of burly hardcore punk, liberally laced with a dark post-punk sensibility.

The blistering first two tracks, Disastro (Disaster) and Non Mi Frega (I Don’t Care), establish the band’s base template of strident yet nuanced hardcore.  It is as the EP sweeps into the tautly bleak opening to the next track, Slacker, and the melodic breakdown that brings Mondo Transparente (Transparent World) to its crushing finale, that you see the band beginning to flex its more melancholic inclinations.  These impulses become even more organically entwined with the band’s surging hardcore on the flipside opener Evita La Gabbia (Avoid The Cage), while discordant melodies flare up amidst the rampaging Spirito (Spirit) and La Lotte O La Morte (Fight Or Death).

Throughout, raw, bristling Italian vocals challenge our broken economic system on Non Mi Frega (‘You only think of us as objects for your profit’) and Slacker (‘The hand that strangles you is the hand that pays you’), together with the often equally repressive forces of religion on Evita La Gabbia and La Lotte O La Morte.