‘All I see is violence and bloodshed, Again and again, Death comes near, You want peace, Now there’s a price on your head’ (Peace By A Rope)

Hailing from Milwaukee, People Die is the debut full-length from Necron 9, following up a series of increasingly blistering demos over the past two years.  Their sound is one rooted in an almost atavistic rage, and it initially floors you with its all-engulfing intensity.  However, as you more fully immerse yourself, there is a satisfyingly engaging level of depth to keep drawing you back beyond its sheer lacerating rawness.

Rabidly catchy riffage comes thick and fast in combination with a rhythm section that stamps its mark with a reckless, swinging abandon.  Meanwhile, the feral grunted vocals unleash a violently primordial yowl against a society whose values have been remorselessly corroded by deeply entrenched social oppression and militarised violence.  As the album hurtles from the searing title track to the flaring melodicism of Flower Child, by way of the bouncing velocity of Not Me, this is a truly unhinged ride.