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MONEY? MONEY. MONEY are the Texas blackened metal punks who dropped that FINAL BAG Demo and 3 A.M. ETERNAL EP on us in recent years. It can be hard to keep up with the deluge of mostly bullshit that comes up on a daily basis but MONEY stands alone. Their "members of" list is impressive but it’s unnecessary in light of the blistering 1-2 of licks and rapid fire drums. And while the aforementioned releases came into being via cassettes on the great Roach Leg Records and from the band themselves respectively, B.I.R. is proud to have these 7 corrosive tracks on vinyl for the first time.
Amphetamine fueled riffs for moral decline. MONEY. FFO: Darkthrone, Anti-Cimex, Sepultura, G-Zet. Remastered by Arthur Rizk, this collection of the initial efforts by MONEY is both for the well acquainted and those who might have missed the tapes when they dropped. Limited to 666 copies, half on COKE bottle clear and the other half on powder white vinyl. Each record comes in a jacket featuring art by Curse of Face and logo by Joe Chatt. Yee.
Our take: Not to be confused with the similarly-named band from Bristol, UK we also wrote about in this issue of the newsletter, this Money hails from Austin, Texas and plays furious metallic hardcore. Like Bristol’s Möney, Texas’s Money reminds me of another band from their part of the world: the Impalers. I found a note saying the two bands (Money and Impalers) share members, and that’s not hard to believe… it’s also a huge compliment, as for me Impalers are one of the very best hardcore bands of the past several decades. While the rhythm section’s relentlessness and the blistering lead guitars bring Impalers to mind, Money doesn’t sound exactly like them, peppering the furious metallic d-beat with parts that sound to me like straight up thrash metal (raw, punky thrash, but thrash nonetheless). It’s raw as fuck (three of these tracks originally came out via the current Kings of Noise, Roachleg Records), but bottom-heavy and powerful. The lyrics and artwork are also really interesting, set in a seedy underworld of violence and (especially) drugs, but in a cinéma vérité kind of way rather than a cartoony way. It’s well-developed, powerful, and compelling in a way that we’ve come to expect from every release on Beach Impediment Records.