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OSK – We Will Never Change

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Mohammad Kabeer reviews the new record from OSK, titled We Will Never Change, released via Give Praise Records.

When I first started to listening to Grind, I used to watch yaksniffer, a channel hosted by this strapping young lad (pun intended haha) called Vii Caso which I swore religiously by and hung on to every word that he said. There was this one band called OSK which he used to speak highly of a lot, I always tried to find that band on youtube or bandcamp, but could never find it. When I finally found it on Vinod Karki’s channel, I was a little underwhelmed, not that I didn’t enjoy it, but I didn’t really think that it was a masterpiece or anything. Nonetheless I was happy to know that I had to review this album, but what really heightened the mood was that I found out that this band had members from Mass Grave which is one of my favorite crust grind bands! Knowing this, I thought that maybe somehow this release would be what the last album should have been, and that’s exactly what this is!

<a href="http://givepraiserecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-will-never-change">We Will Never Change by OSK</a>

OSK is a band that is based out of Canada, their sound can be roughly categorized as a mixture of Grindcore and Powerviolence or as some people like to say”Grindviolence” but that’s just scratching the surface really. The band has a very unique style that touches upon several different styles from within the hardcore subgenre, though a lot of the songs in this album have their base in the faster styles of Grindcore and Fastcore. Over here, these songs move quickly like sharp katana blades, all the while constantly evolving from extremely fast, start-stop structures reminiscent of fastcore to more crust influenced playing that is pretty reminiscent of Mass Grave themselves. This can be heard in songs like Scientific Fraud and Cull the Herd to the slow sludgey side of powerviolence which can be found in the first half of this album especially in the song No Fucking Shame and even some metallic grind the influence of which can be heard as a whole on this album. All of this really help in making We Will Never Change an interesting melting pot of all the different styles that this genre has to offer and thus making the band sound very distinctive and a cut above the rest.

So in short, OSK have really surprised me this time around by putting out a stellar album, which creates something unique yet something different by mixing traditional styles of each genre together in a cohesive way. I thoroughly enjoyed this album and will definitely be spinning it again.