Hello there Arizona! Sunny, warm… and it appears, really fucking pissed too! From the sunny and usually less musically roudy Grand Canyon State hail infact an extremely crusty, violent, confrontational and wacked out hardcore punk band with a super cool name, Windmill of Corpses! These young lads from Northern Arizona have been lurking in the underground for a while now, playing in and around their native state and even venturing further into the deep south of the country, but nevertheless their awesome debut demo (which has been out for a while now), the first manifestation of their musical intent, thankfully made it into our hands and oh boy what a joy it was to discover its existence.
Windmill of Corpses are not your usual crust band. Yes, the dark and apocalyptic tones are there, and so are the fast-slow rhythmic alternations in their music as is the the practically permanent state of ruin, anger and rage their music verses in. All the familiar elements of d-beat crust/grind we all love are there shining as bright as the glow of nuclear war itself. What’s interesting though in the band’s rabid formula is that contrary to what one would expect this music is also highly unpredictable and extremely eclectic. Although the demo is short in playing time and everything is extremely to the point it won’t be hard for the non-causal listener to hear in these spiteful songs unexpected elements of noise rock (spanning from the more “funky”and angular grooves of the Jesus Lizard to the burning and corrosive madness of Lightning Bolt), as well a weird and twisted improvisation vein which brings bands like Ruins, Boredoms and even Naked City into mind. At times the bass lines are completely wacked out and wander off into an almost jazzy delivery while the guitar becomes extremely dissonant and almost decadent in its tones bringing to mind “My War” era Black Flag and Greg Ginn’s gloomy and acid-fueled mammoth riffage. Even being extremely raw, angst-ridden and completely confrontational, this punk music is far from your usual listen in the field, and definitively worth checking out.
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