Brutal hardcore featuring members of Takaru, A Light in the Attic and Suicide Nation. If you liked Takaru, you'll not be disappointed as they've picked up where they left off, only they've upped the heaviness. For the uninitiated- blast beats, hoarse vocals and riffs that'll have your eye out, like the mutant offspring of His Hero Is Gone, Acme and Chokehold. |
DISCOGRAPHY
Selftitled 12" / CD (waving wheat / alone records)
Pestilence 12" / CD (adagio830 / alone records)
4 way split DVD with end on end / endzweck / comadre "live show from 09.30.05 in Redwood city, ca" (bloodtown records)
One song on VIVA LA VIE 4 Compilation CD (Heart Fire Records)
REVIEWS
"When I think of music that pulverizes, music that exemplifies heavy, music that would give your grandmother a stroke just by walking by and hearing it, I don't think about San Fransisco. Pestilence might change all that. Burial Year's latest offering is about as far away from rainbows and Will & Grace re-runs as one band could possibly hope for. Last year it was Buried Inside that dropped an album that was crushing, dynamic, and extremely well written all at the same time. Now it's Burial Year's turn, and the half an hour of music that makes up this record is an unrelenting onslaught of low-end vocals, lightning quick chord progressions and tempo changes, and a thick wall of fuzz and distortion that only an ear well trained for it will be able to pull enjoyment through. It's refreshing to hear a band that is able to pull off a sound this heavy, and not have it stagnate within ten minutes. That's always a danger for bands of this ilk, but Burial Year sidestep that pothole with ease, allowing them plenty of time to concentrate on well crafted songs. And from beginning to the bitter, bitter end, each of the 10 songs has its own identity and reason to listen. Take White Wash a song beginning with a deep, sludgy, Neurosis-like groove, but in the time it takes to snap your fingers, the band forges ahead full force, guitars franticly paced, thick bass, and drumming that just brings the house down. And amidst the chaos of it all, the vocals of Josh Kuntz never so much as waver. Driving and passionate, the low end, raspy screams sear through the rest of the music, lunging for your throat, promising to not let go. Throughout the course of this two-minute song, the tempo and groove manages to change a few more times, all the while keeping a uniform sound not letting things scatter. Thirteen Knots is an all-out blitzkrieg, that from the beginning, the ominous sounding feedback leads into yet another maelstrom of dissonance and cathartic screams. This time, there is no slowing, there is no relenting, it's 3 straight minutes of knock-down drag-out punishment. The guitars are at their most fluid and dynamic, the vocals are rhythmically delivered, and there's just the slightest undercurrent of melody to shake things up just that much more. There's heavy music, and there's heavy music, and Burial Year, well, they epitomize the latter. And not only do they epitomize that, but they're able to present it in a very dynamic and very streamlined fashion with raw power that can't be stopped. "
about the Pestilence 12" by Anchors from Punknews
"Get out of the pit, you windmillin freak. Its time to recover the dancefloor with some real heaviness, backed up by DIY-ethics and a politically pissed off drive. Ive been waiting on this sick baby ever since the almighty Takaru broke up. One of the last things Robert (Zann/Adagio) said to me last Summer before his van hit the road again was: More metal. And even heavier breakdowns.. Floored at forehand although I must admit, even when listening to pestilence, it stays hard to top off the intensity and heaviness from Takaru. Still, the last thing Burial Year does, is disappoint. pestilence is filled to the brim with mosh heavy metalcore destruction of the most extreme kind. Besides Zann, I can not tell you of another European band that has this impact on me. So, heaviness and blistering catchiness that is going to cause some ruckus on the dancefloor. On a sidenote: it can not be said enough: a hardcore band becomes twice as lethal if there is an intelligent pissed off attitude in the lyrics that gives about this world. And so it is with Burial Year. They wouldnt sound this crazy at all if their lyics were about their girlfriend breaking up or some stupid tough guy beef. Get radical. Buy this.
about the pestilence 12" from mashnote
MEMBERS
Aaron, Dan, DuWayne, Sean and Joshua
WEB APPEARANCES