Raw, scary bands are few and far between these days. Australiaonce had a veritable stranglehold on that market. Venom P String,Grong Grong, The Birthday Party to name a few. All that ugly noise,and a blatant disregard for life, limb, mike stands, hearing, thefuture. Melbourne´s High Tension don´t exactly sound like any ofthose bands, but the random, anarchic noise-rock they assault uswith has the same outta control "fuck you all" vibe, and couples itwith a raging nightmare of emotionally saturated screams andbestial rock riffs. Not that everything is off the leash. Just mostof it. Vocalist Karina Utomo has a great bag of tricks to workfrom. Larynx shredding blowtorch screams through to death metalgrowls and even has time for some gentle moments inbetween. MattWeston and Damian Coward are a heavy as fuck rhythm section, andkeep the taut and edgy riffs grooving, while Ash Pegram´s mangledguitar provides an evil counter-balance to the vocals. These guys,to their credit don´t seem to have a stylistic formula in placeeither. Killed By Life has a slight nod towards Motorhead andIceman And Hell, Repeat are heavy, guttural blasts of noise whileTake Control starts with an eerie "quiet room in the mentalhospital" feel, and slides in and out of a heavily distorted,lumbering riff. The quietly spoken vocals particularly had thepower to creep me out in that "I just found some dead spiders in mybed" way and are doubled with some tasty rasping howls. The closer,What´s Left, is what `80s pop would be if the Family had chosen tomake an ´80s pop record. Instead, they murdered a bunch of people.Not sure which crime is worse really; ´80s pop, that is, not thistune. Bully is a great album, lots of dark themes, ugly notions andgargantuan riffs. All this is fused with lyrics that border onbeing an out and out tirade. I was occasionally reminded of Amenand that same kind of unbridled rage on display. Its potency liesin the wholly unique and unhinged style of rock n roll they´vespawned, and all of which kinda left me feeling like I´d found thepin, but couldn´t find the grenade that came with it.

Track list:
1. Bully
2. Guillotine
3. Sports
4. Killed By Life
5. Ice Man
6. Lapindo
7. Hell, Repeat
8. Take Control
9. Mass Grave
10. Static Screens
11. Lucky Country (Part 2)
12. What's Left

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