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NOMADS "Love It or Leave It
LP - $11.35
STREET DATE: 6/3/16
Like a hurricane of sound, Nomads flattens all in its path. Whiplash d-beats, steamrolling riffs and wailing solos drive forward with natural disaster intensity, led by frontman Mocaine's raspy ringleading. The band's extreme brand of punk has its roots in Motorhead, Discharge, and Discharge-loving punks of the '80s, like Anti Cimex from Sweden and Gauze from Japan.
But Nomads is an LA band, through and through. They take influence from around the world and bring it home to LA to tell their own nihilistic stories of drugs, violence, cops, and death. As one LA Weekly writer put it, Nomads "has given LA punk rock an updated version of N.W.A." Like N.W.A. and Suicidal Tendencies, Nomads are LA bards giving a voice to the darkness and demons in the City of Angels.
From start to finish, Love It or Leave It is an album of storm-like sonic power and lyrical realness. Mocaine describes the meaning behind the album title: "It's about completely disliking the reality we wake up to everyday. So you want to escape by getting high or dying. Or both."
Nomads was founded in LA in 2011 by ex-members of Product of Waste and Minority Unit. Founding drummer Jorge Herrera also pounds for Despise You and ACxDC.
TRACK LISTING:
01. Falling Down
02. The Killer
03. Gang Mentality
04. Slaughterhouse
05. Commit Suicide (G.G. Allin)
06. C World
07. Omegalomaniac
08. Ricochet
09. Fall Out
10. Too Little, Too Late
11. Lucretia, My Reflection (Sisters of Mercy)
FOR FANS OF:
Discharge, Motorhead, Trash Talk, Anti Cimex, N.W.A
MARKETING POINTS:
- 1st pressing on 180gram Oxblood vinyl out of 500 units w/ download
- Featuring ex- and current members of Minority Unit, ACxDC, & Despise You
- Recorded at The Pit Recording Studio with Taylor Young (Nails, Xibalba)
- Mastered by Brad Boatright (Full of Hell, Magrudergrind)
- Artwork and layout by comic book artist Neil Devlin
- Album stream on Noisey
- Upcoming shows with American Nightmare, The Trouble & Eyehategod
PRESS:
"Since their inception, LA's Nomads have offered a particularly harsh brand of hardcore punk. Now the outfit are leveling up with their latest release, Love It or Leave It... The record reiterates their themes of drugs, conflict, and cop hate with a vicious insistence... The honesty and intentionality of Nomads will hit you in the face like a two by four... It's raw and it's good." –Mass Appeal
"In translating his life into a band, [Nomads frontman 'Mocaine'] has given LA punk rock an updated version of N.W.A." –LA Weekly
"One band in LA that are down to use their sound as a weapon of change is Nomads... A sharp d-beat blade." –CVLT Nation
"Distorted-as-fuck... Full-sprint into the fray..." –Metal Injection