Band Name: Harsh (2)
Music Album: Reality
Album Release Date: July 2024
Music Genre: Rock Hardcore Grindcore Power Violence
Record Label: Civilisation Records
Album Release Country: Germany
Music Record Type: 23 Tracks CD Album
Harsh was formed in the autumn of 1995 with an idea of doing intense fast hardcore like no-one else in Finland had done before. Influenced by Infest and others. Style developed during the years from straight-forward fast chaotic core to more complicated power violence/grind/hc/?? fusion with lots of tempo changes, strange riffs, stop'n'goes, and spastic blasts beat. All members contribute to the music and lyrics, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Original line-up splitted up permanently after a show in August '96. It took until spring '97 when 3 former members decided to continue without a guitar player and asked a new member to join for a 2nd bass.
During the whole existence of Harsh, the 4 members have lived in 3 different cities. Distance between some members is about 400 km, and this situation does not allow a regular rehearsal schedule. With the new line-up, their playing has become tighter, faster and skills to handle instruments have improved from the start. However, the amount of rehearsals has decreased, and the band is in a situation when they rehearse basically just before gigs or recordings, but not "just for fun", like many others.
Harsh is not a political band in the sense of what people often understand with that word. They deal with the subjects related to their daily life or thoughts. Occasionally lyrics can be a bit overstated, but writers always stand behind their words. There is a little difference between the lyrics of o (...)
| 1 | Intro | 0:04 |
| 2 | Place To Grow | 1:26 |
| 3 | Piece Of Meat | 0:33 |
| 4 | Perfect Flesh | 0:31 |
| 5 | Hardcore Hero | 0:52 |
| 6 | Hit 'N' Run | 1:00 |
| 7 | Man In Statistics | 1:13 |
| 8 | Cheated Souls | 0:45 |
| 9 | Concrete Playground | 0:46 |
| 10 | Peacemaker | 0:55 |
| 11 | Crack Bitch | 0:58 |
| 12 | Hammer And Nails | 0:32 |
| 13 | 12 Gauge | 0:38 |
| 14 | Pyrogasm | 0:44 |
| 15 | Artillery Speaks | 2:16 |
| 16 | Kids Of The Mental Sandbox | 1:02 |
| 17 | Despise | 0:29 |
| 18 | Tuomo | 0:31 |
| 19 | Denial Of Religion | 0:38 |
| 20 | Power Violence Wonderland | 0:52 |
| 21 | Euthanasia Death Squad | 0:40 |
| 22 | Blind MF | 0:17 |
| 23 | Harsh Pride | 3:05 |
Recorded on 4-tracks: tracks 1-18 in 9/99, tracks 19-23 in 12/99.
Cold Northern Power Violence
Comes in a 7" regular sleeve.
File download is hosted on Megaupload
