Memento Mori "Memento Mori"

This awesome Italian crust band should not be confused with the also awesome hardcore band of doing a split with Kylesa fame. This 7 inch is exactly why I love this medium for music: it gives you both awesome artwork, a nice lyric sheet for those of us who can't speak Italian too well, and a nice sampling of what this band can do. The music is your standard crust onslaught with vocals switching from high pitched screams to the type of talk-singing you usually see in Chicano hardcore. A very potent combo, and there are even more variations such as the underwater from hell sound in the album title track "Memento Mori." The lyrics are your standard crust punk topics of anti-war, heroin, and hating society. Definitely guitar driven music, but the rhythm section isn't lacking either.

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Also check out (if you can find it) their prior band Confusione and the most recent band Brigada Do Ódio.