BALZAC: Paradox Vinyl LP

Japan has been doing horror punk better than most of the Western world since the nineties, and Balzac are the proof. Osaka's finest, equal parts Misfits devotion and deathrock gloom, with a psychobilly edge that keeps things unpredictable.

Paradox sits in the darker, more deathrock-leaning corner of the Balzac catalogue, which is saying something for a band who've spent three decades painting themselves corpse-white and writing songs about monsters. If you're across The Stalin's confrontational art-damage or The Independents' horror-soaked pop-punk, Balzac connect those dots with a very specific Japanese underground intensity that's hard to find on wax in Australia. This one is worth it.

Standard black vinyl LP. Japanese pressing. Import.

Fans of: The Misfits, The Stalin, The Independents, Pulling Teeth, Tiger Army, 45 Grave.