Just the other week Head2wall Records put up pre-orders for the much anticipated split between SpiritWorld from Las Vegas, Nevada and Black Coffee from Houston, Texas. This release was announced back in August of last year with an incredible interview on my favorite hardcore news website NoEchodotNet. The interview was between Ian from Head2wall Record's Acid Rain and now Running In Place Record's World Tension and Stu the vocalist and SpiritWorld who had previously been in the legendary LVHC band Folsom. For anyone who missed it I highly recommend going back and checking it out.
SpiritWorld's music is akin to bands like Lucero, Two Cow Garage and Uncle Tupelo but still with some hardcore elements that any fan of the genre can pick out. On the flipside Black Coffee hearken back to a time when hardcore was still wild. Their sound could be described as a mix of those early hardcore scenes in Michigan and California, with comparisons to the Necros, Negative Approach, TSOL and Adolescents being equal between each.
It would be impossible to talk about this record in any detail without mentioning the art by my favorite living artist Give Up. The connection between the artist and the members goes back just as far as their own friendships, over a decade. With Give Up doing art for both bands on more then one occasion. It is only fitting that his art would grace the cover of their collaboration. The art is stark, with details the artist pulled from an old family photo and with the bull seemingly leaving the boarders of the page as it passes the rope brings life to a moment long past.
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