Snackwolf – Lunch Breakdown

German Skate Punks Snackwolf were born back in 2019, Jonas (Guitar/Vocal), Danger (Guitar/Vocal), Flo (Bass/Vocal) and Hesse (Drums/Vocal) did have previous for creating music to mosh to, but now this is the lair they want to hang out in and give us all some political and socially aware songs that speak of unity and all the other shit that needs talking about in the rebel community.

Lunch Breakdown is the bands debut album and follows the EP ‘Appetizers’ and the 7” of the same name, this fourteen track blast into the darkness that sometimes can be the world of Skate Punk, a genre that falls more often than not into the metal camp, so this album has given us all a well earned delve into the more melodic and less polished.  This does not mean this album is less finished or given less time to being at the top of its game, to the contrary, it gives us a sound that wears its, “from the garage” badge with pride. 

Kicking off with the big question ‘Why Are We Here’ and drowning it in a not so much screaming but from the gut vocal, this is a song that lays the bands agenda out for all to see, a need to fight the oppressors and question authority, this is followed perfectly by ‘Dictatorship Retirement Camp’ no fucking around with what they want to say here.

If your fed up of music that sometimes pretends to be one thing and somehow feeds your brain with too many alternate signals, then this is an album that will give you a rest, straight up anger that’s fully directed at the right targets, music that never over complicates, take ‘Don’t Try To Hide’ it has a Bad Religion feel to it, but that’s where the comparison ends, bass lines are dropped like acid burning through the words and the machine gun drums batter the air air around you, the guitar adds the lightening and the vocal hammers home the message with pure energy, this is the by way of the default when it comes to this whale of this album.  

You can move through every song and find moments that kill the last song, the bass line in ‘Sisters (left Alone)’ and the female guest vocal are sublime, but then you get to ‘Brothers’ and have to bow to the beats that drive this song along like a freight train, or what about the entire foreboding that fills every corner of ‘Live In Clover’, all this finished off by the obligatory acoustic track, but then this band still crashes the party a little by making it not a ballad of love for their common people or a lament on what life does to us all, no, this is the 20 second White Riot song ‘Start A Riot’.

Turn off the sound safety level and drop this album at full tilt into your ears, it won’t disappoint, melodic, angry, political, social, and damn right pure punk simplicity. 

Out now via Cats Claw Records (UK), Punk Rock Radar (US), 30 Kilo Fieber Records (EU)

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