KNUT
'Bastardiser'
HYDRAHEAD/CHROME SAINT MAGNUS
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'Knut'
HYDRAHEAD
There's no two ways around it, Knut are GODLY. Yeah, they've been around a bit, but the fine folks at Hydrahead are currently helping to acquaint the public with this fact, reissuing the Swiss quartet's 'Bastardiser' LP (1998) in fancy digipack format and also releasing their latest MCD, simply self-titled. As displayed by these two records (recorded just over a year of each other), Knut are at once difficult to safely pin down and imminently easy to get flattened by their manhole wallop: 'metalcore' in the most convenient of terms, mainly through the on-the-surface synthesis of hardcore's white-knuckled rage with metal's piston-precise power, yet capable of a knife-juggling grace unbeknownst to the former and a primal-state murderousness not usually associated with the latter.
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