Free Noise #36

Artist: Scatha
Title: Respect, Protect, Reconnect
Source: Vinyl 12" LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 00:30:36
Size (mb): 64.5
Label: Flat Earth Records (defunct)
Year: 1996

1. From The Heart
2. Manannan Weeps
3. Uni-Verse
4. I Am One!
5. Cry! Wolf
6. Respect, Protect, Reconnect
7. Pagan Idolatry
8. Blinded By Sight
9. Prognostication
10. Why Fur?

Following up on my promise to subject you all to some more Jockish hardcore, here it is. Better late than never n' all that.

Scatha were made up from parts of Sedition and Disaffect, but managed to sound all like themselves. And themselves sound like a nailbomb detonating in your cranium, a full-on metal-sharded compression blast ripping you apart. It may be intense brain-bruising music, but it hides some surprisingly complex and delicate concepts. Like Sedition, the lyrics align themselves with the neo-pagan ideology that the band favoured and, like Sedition, they manage to lay bare the unnecessary cruelty of modern life. But they also carry some hope for us all, regardless of whether we go for the whole tribal ethic that they're espousing or not. It's designed to make us think about what future we want, and to act to make it happen.

It always struck me as slightly weird that a 'deep' green band would make and produce music that relies on very modern technologies, but I'm glad they didn't let their ideologies get in the way of putting out this fossil-fuelled weapon of mass deconstruction.

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PS: If you visit the Scatha Myspace page, you'll find a load of demo / practice / live mp3s up for grabs.