{"id":316,"date":"2025-07-21T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:22:44","slug":"discharge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/?page_id=316","title":{"rendered":"DISCHARGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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So to be completely honest, I’m quite nervous writing this now. Partly because Discharge is one of the best punk bands to have existed and I doubt my words can do them justice, but mainly because Ian Glasper’s review of Discharge’s Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing <\/i>is probably the best thing I have ever read. It’s so spot-on that it’s hard not to completely plagiarise it, but here’s my best effort at covering Discharge’s Why<\/i>, the first record I’d heard by them and one I definitely won’t forget.<\/p>

As Visions of War <\/i>crackled to life, I remember being hit pretty hard by its immense, dystopian bitterness. Yeah, there’s a lot of other great punk tracks about puking up Special Brew on your Maths teacher, but Discharge’s energy is sinister and real, the blasting of brass in their iconic D-beat clenches tight across Does This System Work, <\/i>like a huge mechanical monster. A Look at Tomorrow <\/i>and Maimed and Slaughtered <\/i> feel grey and menacing with their dirty bass and distorted riffs locked together, Cal roaring injustice down on a foundation <\/b>of crashing tin. I hope ‘grey’ isn’t misinterpreted as unexciting because shit, there’s something very invigorating about a record that sounds like the world is ending.<\/p>

Side A’s Why <\/i>is vastly harsh and powerful with its D-beat boring away, Cal’s vocal heavy with incredulity as toms tumble, but Side B’s Why (Reprise)<\/i>… well. It feels so full, of a primal kind of pain as Cal wails alongside war sirens but also of a sinister foreboding, riffs inclining perpetually and the cymbals hitting shrill and screaming. <\/b>Its sound is so raw, yet shiny and mechanical, a combination impossible but glorious. And then begins the descent into audial Armageddon.<\/p>

Aint No Feeble Bastard <\/i>hauls us up from the dirt, the bass chortling, guitar strong and steady as the snare clatters. Cal thunders alongside a current of distortion, so tangible it courses along like an instrument of its own \u2013 it’s gotta be my top Discharge track.<\/p>

There can be no understating the gripping intensity of Discharge’s D-beat. It pounds relentlessly throughout Mania For Conquest<\/i>, its riffs dismal and electric, and creates a metallic wall of sound in Is This To Be<\/i>, electric guitar firm as it elevates. Its potency and power paved the way for an entire new sub-genre of punk – and having gone to a D-beat night myself, I can tell you that it’s something that can grasp every person in a room by the chest.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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DISCHARGE \u2013 WHY (VINYL): Hardcore crust punk D-beat machine’s fourth EP. 10\/10 So to be completely honest, I’m quite nervous writing this now. Partly because Discharge is one of the best punk bands to have existed and I doubt my words can do them justice, but mainly because Ian Glasper’s review of Discharge’s Hear Nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}