Punitive Damage Unleash Title Track From Upcoming “Hate Training” EP

Pacific Northwest punks, Punitive Damage, recently announced that their new EP, Hate Training, will be released on October 25th via Convulse Records and today they’re back with the EP’s visceral title track. Hate Training is a concentrated blast of vein-popping hardcore fury that combines blistering riffs, satisfying stomp and urgent lyrics that demand the listener’s attention and never let go. Hate Training follows on from lead single Baptism of Fire and offers another dose of Punitive Damage‘s primal punk. The track spins through tempo changes on a dime, landing at a palm muted breakdown and surprisingly shredding guitar solo. 

“Time after time after time, we fall for the hate training served to us. From the slaughter of the Indigenous peoples in the Americas, to the Third Reich, to the Vietnam War, to the War on Terror–empires point us towards a ‘subhuman boogyman’ that must be destroyed at all costs, and with a big stupid fucking smile we say ‘okay.’ And only after time has passed do we realize how we shamefully fell for the bullshit, and how we can’t ever let that happen again. And we say ‘never again’ or ‘we must learn from our mistakes.’ Yet here we are again.” (vocalist Jerkova)