Unsufferable Unsufferable

Released
29th March 2024
Label 
Iodine
Format

7 Inch

Cherry Bomb Red

£9.50

Unsufferable are a three-piece comprising Robert Fish (108, Resurrection, Every Scar Has A Story), Dave Buschemeyer (New Day Rising, Spread The Disease), and Ryan McInturff (Bloodjinn) and their debut seven-inch is a statement of blistering intent.

The band deal in metallic tinged hardcore and they lay down an onslaught of searing intensity across these two tracks.  Opener Enemy Of The State eviscerates the current political environment in the US (‘True intentions clear, despite the lies, Picking rights off, one by one, its easy to feel free until you are the one’), highlighting the assault on abortion rights (‘Upon birth, their life is inconsequential to you, as they were always nothing more than a pawn’) as a critical battle against the wider dismantling of people’s rights (‘It’s a war on women, a war on the poor, a war to disenfranchise.  This war, it’s at our front door).

Flip-side track Revisionist sees the band focus on forging a monolithic, slab-like groove as they explore the importance of dispassionate readings of history and facing up to the realities of what happened (‘We can’t heal, we can’t prosper, we can’t move past, what we deny’).  Throughout, both songs the guitars and rhythm section lock into a truly relentless delivery, the breakdown riff on Enemy Of The State genuinely spine-tingling. It provides the perfect foil to a characteristically visceral vocal performance from Rob Fish as he segues from cathartic roar to impassioned spoken word as only he can.  A debut LP is slated for early 2025 and it can’t come soon enough.

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