Mexico’s Los Revolucionarios and Sweden’s Myetri combine forces to deliver seven tracks each of hardcore fired melodic crust on this split album.

There are significant notable shared attributes between the two bands.  Both have been active for just over a decade and have three full-lengths and another split LP to their name.  Both continue to relentlessly hone their thunderous melding of driving hardcore rhythms and soaring melodic crust.

‘El estado fallo y siguen desaparecidos, Me accompana el dolor, sonrisa falsa y traicon, El estado me quiere matar nos quieren someter, Traicon del estado y muertes, muertees’ (Desaparecidos) / ‘The state failed and they remain missing, I am accompanied by pain, false smile and betrayal, The state wants to kill me, they want to subdue us, State betrayal and deaths, deaths’ (Missing)

Side one sees Los Revolucionarios front and centre.  Theirs is an interpretation that draws eagerly on the dynamics of their hardcore influences to construct a darkly lean, emotionally charged onslaught.  This is particularly vividly captured by the seething climax to The Fall and the fiercely escalating velocity of Fire Inside.  The vocals, which alternate between guttural roars and rasping intensity, explore the silent complicity, corruption, and violence that continue to shroud civic life in Mexico.

‘De som förblindats av hat bortom hotets rökridå, Raserar grunden som demokratin vilar på, De som förblindats av hat står enade med varan, Men faller till sist offer för sin egen fruktan’ (Pestens Tid) / ‘Those blinded by hatred beyond the smokescreen of the threat, Eradicate the foundation on which democracy rests, Those blinded by hatred stand united with each other, But ultimately fall victim to their own fear’ (The Time Of Plague)

Side two sees Myteri take over the reins.  The Göteborg band favour a more avowedly dramatic expression of their base elements.  This nurtures the deep sense of melancholy that defines their sound.  It is equal parts sorrow at what has come before and hopeful defiance that better is to come, as is embodied by Psykisk Terror (Psychic Terror) and Age Of Disinformation.  Meanwhile, the powerfully roared vocals deconstruct how systemic misinformation is fracturing our lives and sowing the malevolent seeds of political extremism and social intolerance.