MAUSER - CACOPHONOUS MEMORIES

This is a discography/retrospective tape for Florida's MAUSER. Their releases are presented in chronological order, starting with 2010's "End Of The Line" and ending with a 2013 live set recorded at Portland's Black Water. Everything has been remastered by Will Killingsworth.

MAUSER plays a typical raw hardcore d-beat punk. Lots of booming tom rolls. Mostly fast, sometimes midtempo, sometimes really fast. Raw and harsh yells are delivered through some cave reverb and/or delay at different times. The guitar tone is very harsh, couple of distortion pedals slammed through a Peavey combo amp. Everything is redlined. Despite the harsh tone, I detect some crust influence. There is no melody here, but from some of the tom-heavy slower meandering parts I get a crutsy feeling. There are some crusty riffs. It's a nice balance to the otherwise raw and relentless onslaught.

The inclusion of a live set is nice, it's not a board recording or anything but it captures the band's live essence quite well if you either never saw them or like me just can't recall. More live bootleg tapes!!

The tape itself is beautiful and meticulously put together like everything else from Sore Mind. The tape has a wild full pad print on both sides, the j-card cover is stamped... a tape for tape heads.

MAUSER's last release before this tape was 2012, and their last show was around 2014-2015. But they never broke up and a note in the linear notes suggests they are back living close together and likely to start playing again...

Tape available on Sore Mind: https://www.soremind.com