DEVIL’S DOG, BIRMINGHAM
UK’s trailblazing noisemakers detonate at metal’s ground zero
two-thirds of your first headline tour is no mean feat; to do it with maybe 40 minutes of recorded material just shows how damnwhose beatdownheavy hardcore is as barebones and knuckle-dragging as it gets. With chugging guitars, near-excessive cymbal crashes and bellowed, throaty vocals, they batter their way through with zero subtlety or frills in a simple but brutally effective way, and it goes down a treat.