FILTH IS ETERNAL - Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal LP (Lime w/ White Splatter Vinyl)

Label: Church Road

Naming your band Fucked And Bound is a good way of simultaneously getting attention and putting people off, but in the summer of 2021 the Seattle miscreants return with a new full-length and a catchy new moniker, Filth Is Eternal. Armed with Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal – the follow up to 2020’s vicious Suffragette – this change in name does not mean they've lost any of their edge. If anything, they're more bloodthirsty, and for 12 tracks they kill.

With a sound rooted in suitably grimy hardcore, all but three songs clock in at under two minutes, making their modus operandi clear: get in, do as much damage as possible and get back out again, and they pull it off with style. There's definitely some old-school influence holding sway, but there is also a malignant darkness to the whole thing, making this a long way from being a feel-good record. Hardcore can always benefit from fresh blood, and as well as a new name the band do genuinely seem rejuvenated, dropping one of the scene’s best records this year.