(written by Islander)
We’re told that the German band No Shelter came into existence in May 2017 as the union of members who had played in many other bands. Since then they’ve discharged a couple of EPs, a couple of splits, and a couple of albums (Rest In Death and Erasing Life). From the beginning they’ve brought together elements of hardcore punk, crust, and Swedish death metal in varying degrees of combination, spawning references among writers to a collision between such bands as Trap Them and Entombed.
This summer No Shelter will have a third album for us. Entitled Remission/Resolve and encompassing 12 songs (including a “Wolverine Blues” cover), it’s set for a July 25 release by This Charming Man Records. What we’ve got for you today is a song off the album pointedly named “Rotten“.
Photo Credit: Kevin Bethke
With these words, No Shelter invite you to listen:
“Rotten” is the first song off the album and is here to crush your ears. What to expect? 2 minutes of chainsaw.
“Nothing but night prevails my thoughts.”
Of course, we have our own words of invitation:
The band’s name makes perfect sense because this music offers no shelter to any harried or haunted listeners. Instead, it offers raging and ruinous catharsis — a massive storm of mauling and mangling HM-2 riffage, thunderous bass upheavals, drumwork that’s both furious and neck-snapping, and bloody raw hardcore yells.
The brutally distorted guitars also generate a boiling blackened froth that’s viciously deranged and, with a piercing piece of string torture as a warning (and more to come), the song also transforms into a slow, hulking beast, dismal in mood and crushing in impact. The band use the song’s final moments to ruthlessly pound listeners’ skulls into fragments.
If you let the player below keep running, you’ll also hear the previously released album track “Shizophrenia” (great name!). It’s a mean-eyed, hard-punching ravager that slashes and bludgeons, again fronted by furious screams. But an eerily trilling lead-guitar connects to the song’s title, creating sensations of hallucination and dementia even as the riffing continues to lethally swarm.
The bludgeoning also gets more brutish as the pacing staggers and stomps, delivering monstrous heaviness to go along with all the exhilarating savagery.
Further below you’ll find the video released for “Shizophrenia“, which adds to the song’s blood-rushing power by giving us a good view of the band doing their thing.
This Charming Man will release Remission/Resolve on limited-edition vinyl LP and digital formats, along with shirts and album/apparel bundles. Find more info via the links below. The album is recommended for fans of Trap Them, Nails, Trash Talk, and of course Entombed.
PRE-ORDER:
https://thischarmingmanrecords.de/produkt/no-shelter-remission-resolve-col-lp/
https://noshelter.bandcamp.com/album/remission-resolve
NO SHELTER:
https://www.facebook.com/NoShelterBand/