BAND OF THE DAY: PULL OUT AN EYE

“You might have heard some scary stories about Belarus, about it being the last dictatorship in Europe, about police brutality, about no freedom of speech, about lame political opposition, about nation being a herd of obedient idiots… Well, everything listed (and much more) is true. We live in a shithole some retards proudly call their motherland. I guess that's the reason why Belarusian punk hardcore scene has always been highly politicized and most of the lyrics have social/political bias.”

In honour of yesterday's slightly depressing monologue on the hopelessness of instant messenger revolt in Belarus, Minsk's breathless thrash punks Pull Out An Eye have that raucous, fist pounding will to fight. Featuring bassist xRudyx, previously of the equally venomous (although awfully named) Appleshout, Pull Out An Eye's 2007 self-titled full-length deals with Chernobyl, neo-nazi violence, homophobia and abuse of authority in the old school circlepit-friendly neo-'80s hardcore fashion of Vitamin X, ANS and any other much hyped band adorned in skate art and Circle Jerks riffs.

Conscientiously translating their lyrics and mission statement into English, Pull Out An Eye know that the best way to communicate the frustrations they have to deal with, is to get those frustrations into people's stereos. Pull Out An Eye don't trade in impotent rage, they trade in articulated rage.