Regular touring partners Skizophrenia! and Deletär join forces to unleash a raucously contrasting split four-track EP.

‘Don’t wanna live, In your delusion, Erase my existence from there, Throw away stereotype, Look with your own eyes’ (Stereotype)

Side one sees Japanese raw punks Skizophrenia! take centre stage.  Both of their tracks, Stereotype and Needless, are reworked versions of tracks previously released on now rather hard to find compilations – 2011’s The Action 7-inch and the more recent 2024 SKZ Omnibus CD respectively.  Active for some twenty years, the Tsuyama-based band unleash a typically high-octane onslaught that sees the catchily upbeat melodicism of their 1980s’ SoCal hardcore inspirations filtered through a rather more caustic lens.

‘Justice expeditive, Justice biaisée, Defense bâclée, Un avenir detruit’ (La Balance Et Le Glaive) / ‘Expeditious justice, Biased justice, Botched defence, A future destroyed’ (The Scales And The Sword)

Deletär share a similar love of harshly boisterous hardcore, but their influences are decidedly more Scandinavian in origin.  Hailing from Saint-Étienne and featuring members of Bleakness, Bombardment, and Litige, this split is their first release since their second self-titled full-length in 2023.  Relentless waves of riffage are the cornerstone of their battery, while the bruising rhythm section remorselessly underpins the flaring solos and burly shout-along choruses.  The gruff French vocals tackle themes of a corrupted justice system (La Balance Et Le Glaive) and the paralysis of self-doubt (Funambule / Tightrope Walker).