I can remember hearing these guys for the 1st time, many years ago and instantly falling in love them. I was mainly driven by aggressive music, with social-political lyrics and was blown away by everything that I could get my hands on by Dystopia. Many years later, and many more bands discovered that are in the "same vein" I still think that Dystopia is a league of their own.
The Aftermath is Dystopia latest (final?) release and it has many many aspect of the crust sound that transcends that genre into a hybrid "progressive crust" genre.(if that even exists) The Aftermath is basically a comp. of songs that they had previously released and then on unreleased track. 13 tracks with a running time of nearly 45 minutes long, this is a great album to have, if you're only going to own 1 of them, but after listening you will want everything they've done. A perfect mix of metal meets crust punk sporadically infused with sound samples that push their political/social lyrics to a higher level of thinking and audio attack. Both low end and high end growling crust punk/metal style vocals add a great twist to the metal edged crust punk tempos that are followed up with great drumming that hits on the fast side and the off beat side!
A great album, a great example of crust punk and an even better example of who punks/metal heads can create beautiful music that has a wonderful message. Get this, buy it, download it, steal it- do whatever you have to do to get this.
Official score- 4.25/5
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