DESPISE YOU: West Side Horizons Vinyl LP (Red w/ Splatter)

Powerviolence doesn't really do subtlety, and Despise You never wanted it to. Inglewood's finest practitioners of controlled fury, they built West Side Horizons out of spite, speed, and Californian heat, and it hasn't aged so much as calcified into something harder.

Originally from 1999, this is the record that cements Despise You in the conversation alongside Crossed Out, Man Is the Bastard, and Infest, the short-burst hardcore grindcore lineage where every second of runtime earns its place. There's class rage baked into the DNA here, specific and unrelenting in a way that a lot of bands cosplaying the aesthetic never quite nail. If your collection runs toward the brutal end of the alternative and punk spectrum, this belongs in it. Red with splatter pressing, because of course.

Vinyl LP pressed on red with splatter vinyl. Artists from Inglewood, California, USA. Genre: Powerviolence, Grindcore, Hardcore. Original year of release: 1999.

Fans of: Crossed Out, Infest, Man Is the Bastard, Capitalist Casualties.