Every genre splinters and flowers out from it's original starting point and hardcore is no exception, mutating fractally out from its supercharged punk roots, twisting through trends, evolutions and regressions, crashing back in on itself until you end up with an international sprawl of scenes and subscenes, styles within styles, odd misshapen fusions and hellbent worship bands.

If you were looking for a sound that could encapsulate the myriad forms that hardcore takes in 2018 one could do a lot worse than slam a record on by ZODD, who have emerged from the vibrant Singapore punk/hardcore scene in the wake of bands like Vaarallinen, Sial and Lubricant. Operationally Ready Dead have an approach based in a vicious pogo-thump but drawing in elements of hardcore's various strands, echoing screams ripping painfully through chomping riffs, weird enough for the freakpunx, hard enough for the mosh kids, chaotic and blown out, squealing and stumbling, but never losing it's dynamism, ten tracks of contemporary anxiety shaped into hardcore anger, apocalyptic angst, psychopaths with uniforms and without, society's born corrupt, getting darker still. ZODD provide a searing soundtrack to this and more. DYSTOPIAN FUTURE IS NOW.

Operationally Ready Dead front cover was designed by Nicky Rat and it comes with a lyric insert designed by the band.

TRACK LISTING:

A1 . Ultra Brute Force Of Abuse
A2 . Pinhead Institute
A3 . Dark Room
A4 . Operationally Ready Dead
A5 . Law Abiding Citizen
B1 . Dystopian Future
B2 . Pseudo Dog
B3 . Nuclear Nightmare
B4 . Mutant Stalker
B5 . Psycho Killer

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