‘Horrifying acts masked in the pursuit of profit, Feeding this destructive man-made machine’ (Breed For The Need)

Ignorance return with a six-track follow-up to their 2023 self-titled debut EP.  This is darkly desperate hardcore.  It binds raw, noise infused riffage, and intricately lacerating solos together with a precisely pounding rhythm section, and filthily feral vocals.  Flares of Japanese influence can be detected, but the Helsinki band are not indebted to any specific tradition, emerging with their own urgently organic intensity.

The band’s primitive fury is matched by their lyrical focus.  The title track explores the remorseless bloody cycle of military aggression, with the dehumanising march of late-stage capitalism, the distorting frenzy of social media, and the restless anxiety that propels much of contemporary society also in focus.  The blistering Echo Chamber and the unhinged swagger of Breed For The Need hit home with particular venom.