Maybe you know Proudhon ? Not the anarchist, the band.
Created in 2020 in Besançon by Thomas Hagmann (drums/vocals) and Antoine Hillon (guitar/bass), the band offers The Damaged Bodies, a first EP.
If the band members chose this name, it’s to pay tribute to the anarchist movement from their area, stating they do not agree with all of the 19 century philosopher’s statements. To embody this organized chaos, nothing is better than a raw Death/Grind over ten songs. After a worker song sample on Schlass, graisse et prostitution, the introduction, the band pours its rhetoric on a violent and simple but very effective music basis. The recording is quite Old School honoring the vindictive howlings and riffs that make us move, as well as those blasts, interrupted by some additional samples. We notice Ravachol with Punk basis, Canuts Revolt and its shrilling harmonics, as well as the groovy The Philosophy of Misery, but it is mainly the rough aspect that is highlighted as the introductive larsen on the brutal Have We Failed? can prove it. We still feel a bit of melancholy on Les Temps Nouveaux, the last song, adding some kind of bitter taste to this violence.
Even short, The Damaged Bodies allows Proudhon to make a first step in the french scene. The sound is greasy, motivation is here, influences are good, it’s a yes for me.
75/100