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Local powerviolence band Weekend Nachos, who have been punishing listeners with their brutal heavy metal for the past ten years, are about a month away from releasing their new Relapse LP, Still. They’ve made a couple of tracks available on their Bandcamp page, and as expected, they’re wild ones. Weekend Nachos started off in DeKalb as a kind of lo-fi, hardcore-leaning grind group, and have managed to get progressively heavier and scarier with each release; the new tracks, “S.C.A.B.” and “Satan Sucker,” prove that this direction is still the case. These devastatingly heavy tracks showcase a decade of growth, seamlessly switching from doomy sludge to crusty D-beat to groovy hardcore more times in their combined three minutes than I can keep track of. And don’t be fooled by the name: while “Weekend Nachos” sounds like something a junior high slacker might name his band, these guys are actually supersharp musicians who can craft truly exciting songs crammed full of erratic starts and stops, intense vocal trade-offs, and blinding drum fills. It’s great to hear one of Chicago’s hardest and heaviest only getting harder and heavier.
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