State Children - Bomb Shelter For Moneymaking! (1984)

State Children - Bomb Shelter For Moneymaking! (1984)

I find it pretty funny when I hear some people comparing black metal guitar tones to terrestrial radios or beehives. Obviously these people have never delved into the insanity of Japanese punk! Whoever played guitar on this record is an absolute legend. The guitar is pretty much there for ambiance rather than laying down a rhythm or hook! Throughout these four tracks of malevolent noise, the bass plods along...y'know, playing notes and riffs. At some points you can hear the guitar roughly following the bass lines. But overall, it's just making fucked up noise! The vocals are vicious and biting, in that Japanese punk way. For some reason, when Japanese guys scream, it sounds like they're getting their intestines pulled out. Crazy stuff. Drum wise, it's pretty much bass-snare, punctures (accenting stop/start riffs), and d-beats.

State Children's demo Do You Support The Invasion of Grenada came out a year earlier than this 1984 flexi. Finding downloads of this demo is hard enough, finding actual copies is nigh on impossible. So a Youtube video shall have to do. The quality is pretty terrible as expected. It may be hard to comprehend, but the flexi has WAY better sound quality when compared to this!

State Children: Do You Support... Demo

Shit-Fi made a pretty cool post on this band HERE. Apparently State Children done an interview
in a Jap punkzine back in the day called 100 Club. At least according to Shit-Fi, they disclosed
that the original name tor Bomb Shelter... was Fighting for Power Politics and that in the year and a half they were together, they went through a few drummers.

So that's pretty nifty!

The band note the usual suspects of Discharge, Crass, and Disorder as their influences. Like
it takes much guessing, right!? What also doesn't take much guessing is that nothing is really known about them. What can be said with authority is that State Children put out a devastating flexi. One which is part of the small amount of pioneering noisepunk/noisecore/raw-punk/Japcore records ever made.

Linky, Link:
https://mega.co.nz/#!dZByBaRS!pAGfCikFJDw6H-oPNbZntqggHqkkvGENZ8bAZKkhsC8