Mörkersida-Parasites (2015)

Mörkersida-Parasites (2015)

“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”

Bernard Baruch

By: Ghost Writer

After what will happen in the Turkish-Syrian borderline, when a Russian sonic airplane was shot down by the Turkey Air Forces?, Who knows what will happen after a Middle East conflict has escalated to worldwide levels? Europe, and Middle East seem to be on the verge of war with many parts involved, and world peace once again is in a very weak position.

But what get us here is music this time,  and that's what these Russian guys named Mörkersida know really well how to make it, Mörkersida is a four piece from Rybinsk, Russia,  their music belongs to the crust punk genre,  and they have a new record called Parasite that is out to make big impressions these days.

Russia has a quite interesting tradition in punk, starting with the great Egor Letov and his Grazhdanskaya Oborona, a legendary runaway act, highly prolific in KGB's times that spawned a lo fi punk rock legacy in times when rock in Russia, and specially, punk was almost impossible to play in Soviet lands, Letov somehow managed to create lots of lo fi recordings,  most of them played and recorded by himself,  that would become the base of some really exciting raw music.

Mörkersida has its obvious ties to Crust Punk, it is raw and fast as hell, with obvious connections to the most raw black metal you can imagine and Motorhead’s mighty sound, these four guys play very primitive and scary stuff, just like good old Motorhead, they sound like a train at full speed without brakes, a suicidal convoy with a mission to crash at full speed on its objective.

Starting with the dark bass lines in Modern Day Slavery,  and guitar riffs that at times remind me of the hellish Hellhammer,  the band quickly forgets about intros and ride on their steel horse in a crazy,  maniac race,  abrasive guitars and ultra-fast drums dominate the mix,  with Arthur inhuman vocals leading the attack, the influence of the amazing Discharge sometimes come to the front,  but the bad sounds hell bent on creating their own horrific personality,  great tunes like the intense rock of Rotting World comes next,  a great and intensely athletic work comes from drummer Heyner,  but guitars also have their big chance on the razor sharp attack of Grim Reaper's Dance,  another whirlwind of sound with the band in top shape here.

Crust Punk might be a little exhaustive,  as the bands embark sometimes in really monotonous displays of energy,  but these Russians really know how to keep things rolling and how to keep things interesting,  and that's precisely what happens in tunes like Same Old Shit,  or the heavier than thou Scum Pit,  with the band upping the intensity level in a considerable way, with their guitar riffs even getting deeper in a song like Columbine,  even tackling delicate subjects,  closing with the great rocking theme serving as title track that really shows what this band is all about,  intensity,  horror and rock n roll at dangerous levels in the complex Russia of Putin.