LOGICAL NONSENSE
Expand The Hive

THE REVIEW

One of the most ferocious Hardcore albums in the history of this relentless musical genre: a claustrophobic, cynical, obsessive album... that kills you. There's the mind of Jello Biafra and his label "Alternative Tentacles" guiding these sordid characters; there's very little information online about Logical Nonsense. They hail from Santa Fe, in the American state of New Mexico, where they were born way back in 1989.

Expand The Hive is the second and practically concluding work, offered to fans of the genre in 1997. An extreme concentration of fierce violence; in just over thirty minutes. Take the terrifying speed of the earliest Discharge, the blind and furious rage of Brutal Truth and the entire New York scene of the nineties (Agnostic Front and Biohazard at the forefront): in this way, a wall of sound is created that frightens and instills terror. And in some instrumental passages, they are so cacophonous that they border on noise territories that inevitably remind me of the early Helmet of Strap It On.

With Mikey's angry vocals spewing out his total hatred against corruption, social decay, the Church, and governments: like modern Dead Kennedys, even angrier, crossing every limit. A calling card that leaves no doubt about their inhuman sonic extremism.

They had a brief, unexpected, and intensely glorious moment, enough to warrant the reissue of their debut album Soul Pollution: a work even more chaotic and not perfectly focused.

A free-falling meteorite that has left trails of fire and flames still very visible to this day... RIOT MUSIC...