PERDITION - 7" - 2010

 

The old joke, popular in an embarrassingly high number of European countries, used to be that the average American had so little knowledge of the world beyond their nation's borders most thought "Denmark was the capital of Amsterdam". Ignoring the fact this assertion usually said as much about the superiority complex of many of our continent's inhabitans, most of whom who'd struggle to pinpoint even the biggest US cities on a map themselves, as it did about some of our friends across the ocean, I would wager NY based PERDITION would definitely be able to point out Sweden and Japan at least. In fact, I bet they would be able to even name, and have a good humored crack at the pronouncation of, a few of it's cities, then proceed to educate the locals on some of the 80s bands that hailed from there they themselves might have missed. This, Perdition's 2nd 7" pays musical homage to the spikey haired Swedish and Japanese punks that took the early 80s UK sounds of Discharge, Chaos UK and Disorder (who Perdition might just have heard of as well...) and perfected it into something much harsher, much rawer and much more aggressive. It's another total winner on the ever consistent Distort Reality label, with actual proper tunes as opposed to noise for the sake of it...and to top it off sporting what must be one of the best record covers in recent history.
PERDITION