GG Allin’s Bastard Scum…
DRUG LUST Review + Stream

‘Dusted’, the second track on this bruising three-song set of primal, vomitific hardcore, opens with a sample of the original rock ‘n roll terrorist himself, GG Allin, on the Jerry Springer Show stating that without music he would “probably be a serial killer or mass murderer”. Everybody laughs, Springer makes a crack and the show goes on. In the context of the surrounding five minutes of music on this new tape by punk provocateurs Drug Lust, this line sounds less and less like a joke.

Drug Lust are worthy successors to GG Allin’s notorious brand of rock n’ roll terrorism, playing violent, vile hardcore that carries the torch of combative, provocative punk rock lit by stylistic forefathers like Allin and the Sex Pistols, calling back to the genre’s reactionary, un-PC origins with titles like ‘Painkiller Blues’, ‘Dusted’, and ‘Eat Pills & Kill Your Friends’, that are the sorely needed antidote to too much straight edge sloganeering and positive punk posturing. This is punk rock that your mum can’t get behind, back after a long hiatus.

Music critics have beaten to death the descriptor that <this band> sounds like <this band> on steroids, well, Drug Lust sound like very early DC hardcore on muscle relaxants. These songs have the same mid-tempo, fuzzed out bassy rumbling of Void, Teen Idles and State Of Alert (they even close out the tape with a cover of S.O.A.’s ‘Gonna Have To Fight’), but make no mistake, this is far removed from Dischord Records’s socially conscious brand of hardcore.

This is Void through a haze of booze and stolen prescription drugs, with a drunken Johnny Rotten spitting and hollering and offending as many people as possible. The three songs on this raucous new tape are held together by a series of samples of GG Allin in his heyday terrorising a Jerry Springer audience, and that is exactly the attitude Drug Lust exude in every aspect of their being: terrorising, bratty, shit-eating, provocative, and dangerous, like poking the riled up on edge kid with a stick.

So turn it up, fuck the neighbours, fuck pigs, get drunk, eat pills and kill your friends.