Last Match - Self-Titled 7" (Insect Records, 1997)

I'm going to attempt to maintain a once-a-week posting schedule for this blog. I have also been playing around with the look of it as well, made some progress but it could still use some tampering with.


Anyways, I've been listening to this band a lot recently and I got this 7" off of some dude on the internet for $2. Last Match was a hardcore band from Sweden that lasted from 1997 to 1999. They released this 7" as well as a split 7". There is, however, a collection of everything that they have ever done that includes unreleased tracks - but the band itself has even said that many of those unreleased songs are subpar to their other material.


I came to like this band when I randomly stumbled upon their MySpace page (welcome to 200x!) and saw that nearly every other band represented on their page was one of my favorite bands. This band takes a specific experimental hardcore format mastered by the likes of Born Against (who did it with more spite) and Universal Order of Armageddon (who did it with more emotion) and formulates it into more traditional hardcore punk song structures. It comes out sounding not unlike other bands who attempted something similar to this (Palatka, Assfactor 4, In/Humanity [although each of these bands had completely different influences]), but is definitely heartfelt and unique enough in its own right. Sit down for 14 minutes and listen to what this band had to say.


I feel no communication, no enthusiasm in this room / Silence speaks loud / Are we only here to tap our feet to the sound?