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After a debut full-lenght record a year ago Jarada already crafted eight new brickwalls for a new one sided 12"!
This Israeli band from Tel Aviv continues to deliver angry, punching and chaotic music to the table, with some really bleak and negative overtones that are intertwined with hebrew lyrics that are mixture of personal thoughts with some politics thrown in!
Ma'agal Sina'a means "A Circle of Hate" in hebrew and is a natural follow up to the earlier S/T 12" and it deals with several issues which you can consider as "current events" from the past year and it also digs deeper into the emotional struggles and choices one needs to make to keep his or her shit together. On the one hand it may seem more cultural-political with songs like "Monopoly on Suffering" and "A Jewish State is a Circle of Hate" and on the other hand way more personal, with a self questioning and soul searching ("Riddance", "I Was in the Army").
As on the first record, you can expect fierceful vocals, chrushing hardcore riffs and plenty scraps of everything thats great about heavier side of punk music in the last decade.
Our take: 45rpm one-sided 12” from this Israeli hardcore band. Jarada has a noisy yet progressive style that reminds me of the more stripped-down and 80s-influenced 90s hardcore bands like Born Against and Deathreat. Like Deathreat, they have hoarse, shouted vocals and are fast, but touches like the dissonant lead guitar on “Fed Up with the Future” and “They Wore You Down, They Burned You Out” (I’m using the English translations of the song titles) and the instrumental breaks that connect the tracks make me think of progressive hardcore bands from Born Against to Una Bestia Incontrolable. Also, in case you’re not sure about supporting a hardcore band from Israel, their lyrics are critical of their country’s policies while offering a perspective on what it looks like from the inside rather than simple, crowd-pleasing sloganeering. If you’re a fan of the aforementioned bands (or newer ones like Shit Coffins who play a similar style), I recommend checking this out.