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4 brand new tracks of D-Beat Raw Punk!! No Fucker has been back in a big way the last couple years, playing out, and delivering blistering live shows, but a brand new 7” of No Fucker songs makes it feel like No Fucker is REALLY back, and ready to steamroll audiences and shatter ear drums. Every time I see them I feel like they are a band committed to exceeding any gig, record, etc. they have done before, and think about what a rarity this is for any band that’s been going for over 20 years. Talking with a friend after seeing them a year ago we wondered why the legions of Raw Punk fans covered in Disclose and Discharge logos were not coming out from miles around to sell out every No Fucker gig. Do these people really love Discharge style hardcore? Or are they latched onto logos as some sort of brand or identity, as No Fucker is simply the best thing you can experience if you truly love Discharge style hardcore. Those who have heard to the 2 live Discharge tracks on the Apocalypse Punk CD from 1992 ( Recorded on the Apocalypse Now Tour during the band’s classic era - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu4IHZLw7CM ), have heard Discharge more noisy, more raw, and more fierce than you can hear them on any of their studio recordings, and No Fucker, like Disclose did before them, channel this same energy in a way that none of their peers do. Absolute highest recommendation.
Our take: Tombs is the comeback record from this notorious New York (previously State, now City, I believe) d-beat band. No Fucker’s original run was in the early and mid-2000s, but they recently resumed gigging. No Fucker was under-appreciated during that original run, when what they were doing went over virtually everyone’s heads. While they were inactive, I feel like I had more than one conversation to the effect of, “if No Fucker was still around they’d be HUGE!” Well, No Fucker is back, and they sound exactly the same. It is as if time had not passed. Yet it seems like plenty of people still look at No Fucker and think, “I don’t get it.” Honestly, I feel like I get it even more today, and I think Tombs is a sick record. As with seeing them live, the guitar solos are a highlight. No Fucker’s guitarist has this really intuitive way of playing I just can’t get enough of. The solos sound ragged, almost improvised, yet they’re full of memorable licks and melodies (just like Bones’ most perfectly chaotic solos). It’s not just the solos, though… the band sounds so great together… it’s hard to put my finger on it, but they make this sound that sounds just like them. I mean, maybe it also sounds a lot like Disclose and Shitlickers, but it definitely sounds like No Fucker, too. And putting aside the philosophizing, there are moments like the part when the vocals push into the red on “Tombs” that make my spine tingle. Maybe you get it, maybe you don’t, but, like I said, I think Tombsis a sick hardcore punk record.