Weekend Nachos - Unforgivable
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RIYL
InfestCrossed Out
Lack of Interest
Eyehategod
Release Date
09/01/2009
Label
RelapseTracklist
1. 20092. Elevated Tracks
3. Unholy Victory
4. Pain Over Acceptance
5. A Few Blocks South
6. Balance Of Power
7. Nights
8. Rejected Psychopath
9. Shot In The Head
10. First To Burn
11. Reason To Die
12. Unforgivable
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Powerviolence was in its prime throughout the 1990s with bands like Infest, Man Is Bastard and Crossed Out paving the way for the genre. Throughout the last decade, however, the genre has quickly fizzled out into the areas of grindcore, thrash, and anywhere in between, placing powerviolence on the shelf to accumulate dust. All of this ended when members of Harms Way decided to form Weekend Nachos in the hopes of reviving a genre almost extinct by stepping out from behind the curtain of utter obscurity with their 25 song debut Punish & Destroy.
On the band's sophomore follow up and Relapse debut, Unforgivable leaves the listener with no time to breathe while you recover the teeth knocked into the back of your throat by a barrage of speed, angst, sludge, and ferocious breakdowns. Even before the record begins to play, one look at the album's artwork will leave you with the overwhelming feeling of hatred as the close up image of a decapitated child is like a shotgun wound to the stomach. But once the music actually starts to pour out of the speakers, the bleak and nihilistic sensations are elevated to new heights of devastation not seen since the firebombing of Dresden.
The sheer destructive nature of the album alone, however, is not enough to save it from the depths of the grave as a great number of tracks, more specifically “Elevated”, showcase incredibly slow, droning breakdowns that were most definitely intended to sound vicious but only come off as one dimensionally boring. Tracks like the album opener, “2009”, “Nights”, and “Unholy Victory”, that pick up the pace in between the ‘snoozers’ on Unforgivable simply do not hold enough steam to wake the inattentive listeners from their daze.
There are, however, some diamonds found laying in the rough of Unforgivable. Weekend Nachos are incredibly good at what they have intended to achieve lyrically, and that is to shock the living shit out of you. The imagery that each line instills throughout the record is absolutely gruesome, extremely disturbing, and borderline insane. It’s enough to make any parent place their child in the care of a therapist, and should Stephen King happen across the lyrics booklet, there is no doubt in my mind that even he would shudder at the complete bleakness of it all.
Simply put, Unforgivable could have been so much more for this genre. The fact that a band can hold such destruction in their hands and go about it in such a dreary and unenergetic manner is simply perplexing to one's mind. However, it remains clear that once Weekend Nachos find their niche, they will be well on their way to revitalizing the mummified powerviolence genre.
--Daniel Alcinii
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Los Angeles
Nacho's aren't trying to bring back powerviolence, they even write songs about how they hate being pigeon-holed into the term.
I love this album but I can see where other would hate it. Oh well.
Atascadero, CA
worst band name ive heard in recent memory.
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Los Angeles
It's a joke. The whole band was never supposed to be taken seriously.
Lehigh Valley, PA
Best band name, too bad the music doesn't live up to it. All the kids around where I'm from jock the shit out of this band. I can't stand them.
Los Angeles
Do you like any of the other bands listed in the RIYL?
Lehigh Valley, PA
You obviously know nothing about me. Never read anything I've written on here... hahaha yea man i liek every single band listed in it.
Los Angeles
I don't know that my question shows that I know nothing about you, per se. People have different tastes in hardcore, and I thought that maybe yours wasn't akin to Infest-esque bands.
Anyway, this album is still one of my favorites this year, it's just so damn unrelenting. The song Nights contains one of the best grooves ever put to tape and makes me want to end lives.
Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Toronto, Ontario
I used to really enjoy Infest and bands like them, but then I just kind of got bored with the genre. I never really enjoyed Weekend Nachos previous albums, and this is the only one I listened to 10+ times, but I just thought at times it was kind of lazily put together. That's just me though, and then again I love hardcore in the vein of Minor Threat / Bad Brains (Banned in DC era) / Career Suicide, etc.
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Los Angeles
Kind of figured you weren't much into PV when I read the review. I do think that this is a fair review that explains the album through the eyes of someone who isn't a PV fan, which is much more valuable then if I were to review. I'd have given it a 3.5/4 overall.
Differing opinions on music is why I like this site.
Serious question: am I missing out by not listening to Career Suicide?
Toronto, Ontario
That depends on whether or not you like "hardcore punk" or not. I think they're great and really fun to listen to though, so I'd suggest checking them out. What's the harm, right?
Here's a link to stream/download some songs:
http://www.careersuicide.net/sounds.html
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Los Angeles
A little Kid Dynamite, a little Fucked Up ... I dig it.
Thanks for the link!