DISFEAR - Soul scars LP

£14.00

DISFEAR - Soul scars LP

£14.00

Originally released in 1995 via Distortion Records, now re-released
via La Familia Releases!
Forming around 1989, Disfear took elements from both crust and death
metal scenes to effectively reinvent the Swedish sound. It is from
Disfear's influence that we have seen the likes of Martyrdod,
Warcollapse, Wolfpack (now Wolfbrigade), and countless others. Disfear
simply took the things that made the Swedish death metal scene so
effective such as ferocious/anxious vocals and pummeling drums and
put them into the arena of d-beat punk. The result added new dimensions
to the genre's sound.
Arriving on the scene in Sweden, the band would tour with much of
Sweden's metal royalty such as Entombed and Dismember. This happened
in part because the band did not have many sonic contemporaries in
Sweden at the time. Another innovation made by Disfear was the shift
from political commentary on war to the fatalistic and psychological
impacts war makes. Again, the band's lyrics also showed influence
from the realm of death metal.
Gone were the cries for peace and protest against government warmongers
and replaced by the resignation that the war was lost. The band's
debut LP "Soul Scars" spells this out perfectly. Themes of
psychological trauma and irrevocably broken lives from war replaced
the politically charged battle cries that Discharge once made.