LP Review: Disavow - Disavow (2019)

Hell yeah, this is intense! Disavow from Gothenburg, Sweden have recently released their first full-length album "Disavow". The record features eleven tracks of ice-cold rusty-metallic (post-)Hardcore. The quartet was founded in 2016 and has so far released a five-track CD called "Half Empty" via Epidemic Records. Two years later their self-titled LP "Disavowal" is finally available via Straight Edge WorldWide, Epidemic Records, Refuse Records, Useless Pride Records, and can be streamed either there or on bandcamp, Spotify, and probably elsewhere. You know how to use the internet.

The eleven tracks on Disavow's debut are characterized by heavy riffing, strong distortion, various and severe beats, halting passages, and fast-forward attacks by all four musicians punching you straight in the face. I would describe the style as some sort of heavy darkened metallic Hardcore with a little Sludge here, and a little Crust there. Disavow play powerful music that instantly makes your head move, and the rest of the body will follow until you cannot fight stomping to the beat.

The LP by Disavow may only last for a little more than twenty minutes, but since the music is so powerful the dragging riffs of the last song "From your Eyes" actually are a great opportunity to gather some new energy. What to do afterwards? Turn the record around and listen to it again! This album is way too great for listening to it only once.

Disavow make great use of forceful riffing, heavy beats, melodic but ice-cold harmonies, and such a present voice that simply multiplies the power of any track by 666%. If you love artists such as Hang the Bastard, Palm Reader, Kylesa, Skitsystem or early Wolfbrigade, you should definitely invest in this beautiful peice of dark arts.