Copulaters-To The Bone album review. FFO: Old school, pacy killer hardcore. By Mark Jenkins.

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Copulaters-To The Bone album review. FFO: Old school, pacy killer hardcore. By Mark Jenkins.



This is another cracking musical project of Sir Paul Lindsay, singer of Vicious Circle(who are still going since 1983!), and Cop-U-Laters will rip you a new one if you dig frenzied, blazing old school hardcore. And I am talking the top-tier stuff like Circle Jerks, Negative Approach, SSD, The Mob, Urban Waste, Negative FX, Early Agnostic Front, Ill Repute, as well as Discharge, Lärm, Cryptic Slaughter and many more, you get the picture. Fast, unpretentious and bullshit free classic hardcore. The longest track is 57 seconds...hell yes. 


And it is flawless because its members are from:

Abrasion, DREAD, International Karate, Neck Grip, Flamethrower, Vicious Circle, Rue Morgue, and LOCO Diablo. So expect non-young folk(I am in that category also, so I am being respectful..okay!)playing tough arse, but superbly written anthems from start to the very end.

Bio:

Initially, with getting this together the main objective was fun, nothing complicated, just a bunch of mates hammering out tunes in a factory, kicking up a racket, this is the result. Enjoy!

This album was recorded at Goatsound Studios, Melbourne, Australia, in one day with engineering and mixing duties performed by Jason Fuller. Produced by Copulaters.

So To the Bone is 12 tracks that go by very quickly, but you will wanna mosh, headbang or punch walls or cops from the moment this album starts. Violence starts the album and is almost a mix of Oi! and Negative Approach with better harmonies. Great opener, sheer maddened tempo, acidic riffs, and so much dynamic tension. And the aggression doesn't abate with the brisk rate of machine gun fire and explosive tone with Get the Drop, the S/T track, Draw the Line(Boston Hardcore anyone??), and you even get a punchy groove with the killer Any Given Place. Five tracks are already gone, and you feel like you have just finished a boxing workout, whilst pondering JUST-HOW-THE-FUCK-DO-THEY-CRAM-SO-MUCH-IN-EACH-SONG!!!. Impressive is an understatement.


Imminent starts the record from the mid-point, and this has tons of Discharge and UK Hardcore Punk vibes. Then it's another breakneck feast of anthems with the headstrong No Cure, the fastcoreish Back Up Again, Take a Hint is very much Sheer Terror worship, which is never wrong. One of the finest tracks is also the band's longest track, the glorious Justify, with its sublime borderline Husker Du riffage, whilst having a fantastic TSOL vibe. Great influences are apparent, and the delivery is spot on. Clear reinforces the caffeine-fueled velocity of the whole record, and Stand Your Ground closes the record(although the vinyl has a tasty cover version of a streetpunk classic..so make sure you get that version!)in a barrage of maniacal riffs, stomping rhythm and rabid vocals.


All in all, a astonishing ripping hardcore album with a no bullshit, pedal to the metal attitude, whilst very clearly these lads are having a cracking time recording this and this weekend sees the launch of the Vinyl:


Contact the band for the vinyl or go to the Vinyl Launch I just mentioned, otherwise:

https://cop-u-laters.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-bone

Get antisocial:



And in July don't you dare miss:



(THAT'S ONE SERIOUSLY STACKED, AWESOME LINEUP OF KILLER BANDS!!!)


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