Yellowcake "Can You See the Future?"

    From a pandemic to now the threat of nuclear war, the world is completely falling apart and chaos seems to be lurking around every corner. Sometimes you ask yourself, “Is there even going to be a future?” I think that is what caught my attention right away when I came upon this new EP titled, “Can You See the Future,” from the Arizona based hardcore punk outfit Yellowcake. This band comes along at the right time to offer listeners a blistering hardcore punk release.  

    Yellowcake’s sound and presentation is not over the top and the band does not write cryptic dribble to impress scholarly minds. The band’s raw aggression is perfectly recorded on each track, while also maintaining that savagely destructive hardcore punk mindset. On each track you find yourself listening with great interest as the bombastic arrangements come crashing out of your speakers like an explosion from a neutron bomb. 

    Musically, the band plays with a fiendish energy which can be heard on every riff throughout the EP. The band’s drummer adds a massive amount of pulverizing d-beat rhythms, and the first song, “Can You See the Future,” is an unbelievably loud onslaught that hits you right in the face. Along with the tight sounding instrumental arrangements, I really liked the vocal delivery by the band's singer. There is relentless passion, raw anger and honest artistic expression behind every lyric. For example, the screams on the song, “Eradicated Peace,” are extremely haunting and perfectly compliment the frantic guitar riffs. 

    Another track which features some utterly vicious sounding riffs is, “Indiscriminate Shelling.” During the opening of the song the band unleashes a merciless attack by coming up with a hellish galloping style riff. One again, the singer provides simple and straightforward lyrics to emphasize the song’s profound message. On the following track, “Visage of the Flame,” I was extremely impressed by how the band came up with such a scorching piece of music. For some reason the singer’s vocal delivery during the song reminded me of Penelope Houston the singer from classic SF punk rockers, The Avengers. There is this inner ferocity that comes bursting out and infuses itself with the vividly distorted sounding chaos. 

    Although the EP is not very long, which is pretty typical for hardcore punk music, the band proves to be more than capable of getting their point across and laying down some deafening tracks. If you are fan of punishing hardcore punk that strikes without any remorse, then you need to check out this EP. The future does look pretty bleak right now, however, I hope Yellowcake is able to put out another monstrous release before the skies turn to ash and those of us who survive have to walk around wearing hazmat suits. 

Check out the full EP below: 

Link to Yellowcake's Bandcamp:

https://yellowcakephx.bandcamp.com/releases