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"In the space between counterculture, excess, and a scene divided comes Berlin’s Desintegración Violenta.
The international four piece offers its first sacrifice to vinyl with a barrelling new EP as a follow up to their 2021 demo. Five tracks of demonic speedy metal-punk by the way of crude Sabbat style riffs, featuring nods to Tormentor. All hell breaks fast and loose in tandem, and the howling, cacophonic Spanish vocals make this release uniquely its own.” -Morgan Davis
Split release with Unlawful Assembly(Milwaukee) and Static Age Musik (Berlin).
Our take: The appropriately named La Bestia EP is the first piece of vinyl from this metal-punk band from Berlin. If you’ve been digging the recent wave of raw metal-punk from bands like Salvaje Punk and Tower 7, you should check out Desintegración Violenta. While Desintegración Violenta has similar raw production to those bands (particularly Salvaje Punk), their songs lean more toward 80s speed metal. The guitar riffs are pretty much straight metal, swinging from hooky lead licks to big, Celtic Frost-esque mid-paced parts. While the guitar player has some chops, the vocals (in Spanish, though the band is based in Germany) are unhinged in the style of old South American hardcore, and the rhythm section keeps things primitive and pounding. Besides raw 80s South American hardcore and metal, something about the darkness and fuzziness of it also makes me think of 80s Japanese punk... check out the intro for “Eliminacion Historica Total,” which totally could have come from a mid-80s Japanese flexi. I also love that this is a lengthy EP with over 10 minutes of music, so there’s space for Desintegración Violenta to show a lot of range on this 7”. If you’re as stoked as I am on all the great music happening right now at the intersection of raw punk and underground metal, La Bestia is not one to miss.