Move on to Skullcrusher then, whose harsher name opens the door to softer responses to this legendary material. Dan Littleton, Erik Fisher, Colin Meeder and Mike Bonner could never – though their initial offering is still intact and ruptures the ears and melts the brain as all good punk should. The punk crunch of The Hated is long gone and replaced instead by an unnerving, off-kilter tension. Helen Ballentine manoeuvres around the pitfalls of adaptation and brings on a similar intensity. Words Come Back, this cover of The Hated song, yes – that emo number with a few thousand listeners still circling the drain on Spotify – works wonderfully. Life in the fast lane such as this is always soundtracked by constant music as it keeps the tinnitus at bay. Still, trivial details like this are for music journalists who are fresh out of the shower after an unwashed week tapping away at a broken keyboard hooked up to IV drips of Tassimo flat whites.

It is arguable Skullcrusher, not the band but the label provided to those who crush skulls, would render the crushed without their words.

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