‘Oscuros caminos vi a elegir, para oscuras sensaciones evitar sentir, por que a mi esto me toco vivir?’ / ‘Dark roads that I saw to choose, Dark sensations to avoid feeling, Why did I have to live through this?’ (Dungeon Crisis)

Hailing from Temuco in Chile, Se Pudro Todo…Adios (Everything Rotted…Goodbye) is Argh’s debut full-length, following a couple of earlier 7-inch releases, most recently 2021’s El Silencio De Los Cromagnones (The Silence Of The Cro-Magnons).  The band deal in densely layered hardcore base that is fused with a myriad of influences from melodic raw punk to fierce d-beat and flashes of early crossover thrash.  The result is an album that sweeps from the anthemic Brigada Cascabel (Ratlesnake Brigade) to the stomping aggression of Dungeon Crisis by way of the saxophone-fuelled title track without ever losing momentum despite the savage twists and turns.

Raspingly rhythmic Spanish vocals bristle with nihilistic disdain and the band share a certain atavistic energy with the likes of Long Knife and Woodstock 99 as they map out humanity’s apocalyptic future with a relish that only boisterous gang vocals and wildly rollicking solos can accurately convey.