by Sean Farrell

Omegas at 538 supporting Government Warning (more by Keith Marlowe)

Canadian slam-skank kings Omegas will visit Brooklyn to play the Acheron on June 9th, five days after their already sold out showcase at Emo's during Chaos in Tejas. They will be joined by fellow hardcore stalwarts Dry Spell and Mad World (both from Virginia), as well as Brooklyn's own DBCR. Detractors of high-octane, unrelenting, aggressive hardcore, complete with copious amounts of slamming, skanking, and flying bodies, need not apply.

After Acheron, Omegas will conclude their mini-U.S. tour by heading to the Mendon, MA's RAD Skatepark for a show with Mind Eraser, Kieltolaki (who plays NYC soon too), and Scapegoat.

Omegas' new release Blasts Of Lunacy is twenty-three minutes of hardcore awesomeness, available now on Parts Unknown. The LP calls to mind everything you love about NYHC, injected with some street punk swagger and raw energy. Check out two tracks, "F.S.O.M" and "Peasant Dance" streaming below.

DBCR also recently released some material in the form of the down and dirty Bikes/Reverse Broken Windows Theory 7". Listen to one of the songs, "Reverse Broken Windows," below.

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words by Ilya Blokh, photos by Samantha Marble

Dysrhythmia

Though the band played ashow in early November at Union Pool, it was a treat to see Dysrhythmia at a recent show at Union Pool on 12/17 with support from The Austerity Program, DBCR, and Bad Girlfriend.

I got to the venue just in time to catch the 3-piece Bad Girlfriend, missing DBCR aka Drunken Belligerent Confrontational Rock. Bad Girlfriend is clearly a vehicle for Aubrey, who steals the scene with her soulful, bluesy rasp, then turns to shrieks and growls on a dime. Unfortunately, the guitars muddle the overall sound and distract from the singing; I would be curious to hear these guys with vocals/drums only.

The Austerity Program - a guitar/bass duo backed by a drum machine - were up next. The prominent bass, dissonant guitars, industrial beats and clean vocals ooze Godflesh influence - a sound we don't hear often these days. I wonder if live drums could still work here and add a little more sonic variety. Nevertheless, the thick, overwhelming sound was a good match for the grimy, claustrophobic confines of the Charleston basement. When asked to play "two more", lead singer Justin commented that "tumors" were not a laughing matter.

Last up were Dysrhythmia - a local band we barely get to see because of all the other projects the members are a part of (Krallice, Byla, Behold...the Arctopus, etc.). A perfect mix of musicianship and good songwriting, the songs swirled in long, tense passages of complex guitars, jazz influence and strange time signatures, without losing focus or devolving into full-blown technical masturbation; the crowd was in motion the entire time. There were apparently some issues with girls and amps, but I wasnt able to determind the issue from my vantage point. All in all, a night out and a great chance to see some locals acts that don't play too often.

More pictures of all four bands below...

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