When music runs out of ideas, it recycles old genres. When that happens, smart music fans look for the exceptions that give both style and substance some tweaks to make them compatible with the current time and its challenges. Where the retro-thrash movement has produced some imitators of no substance, Trash Talk comes crashing in with a punk-inspired, thrash-influenced offering that invokes elements of the underground that developed while music festered in nu-metal and metalcore. Although the band compares themselves to Cryptic Slaughter, and comparisons could easily be drawn to Municipal Waste, what fuels this mania is more akin to the suffocated rage and dissident misanthropy that made Eyehategod and Acid Bath favorites of the late 1990s. Songs are sludgy rants that explode into frenetic activity, then smash it all down again, like a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom. It is as if Trash Talk enjoy beating on their audience, lulling them into a false sense of security such as they might enjoy from media, religious or government leaders, and then detonating the result in a searing diatribe. While people will compare this record to works from Discharge or DRI, it's more like Eyehategod meets Crass with Neurosis in the wings. It's fortunate to see punk hardcore given another chance with this acerbic testament to the enduring powers of resistance through surliness.

Trash Talk - Trash Talk review and MP3 samples

Trash Talk are so fucking awesome

I listened to Trash Talk once before, maybe I heard the wrong stuff but I thought it was absolutely fucking awful.

I haven't heard their earlier works. Those might be less competent.

Sometimes they remind me of SOD, but more like EHG, who were godlike for a time.

Of course, when EHG performed in Austin, they pretty much acquitted themselves as whiny heroin-addicted bitches, which was sort of sad.

yeah...seeing them live sorta sucked

The 2 times I saw them live (Cambridge Elks with Converge, 108, Pulling Teeth and Great Scott with Coliseum, Victims) they were great.

yeah dig the tunes but not what expected live.

sounds ok...honestly nothing i haven't heard before.