Justin Pearson's fuck-you swagger, abrasive, violated cartoon character screech and legion of adoring, hipster fans might rub you up the wrong way, hypothetical hater, but his services towards keeping punk, grindcore, powerviolence and assorted noisy subgenres in a constant state of revolutionary turmoil can't be denied, from The Locust and Some Girls, to Holy Molar, All Leather and Headwound City.Formed some point in late 2010, JP is rejoined by Locust drum berserker and Cattle Decapitation founding member Gabe Serbian, and newcomers to the Pearson canon Thor Dickey and Michael Crain, Retox are a return to grindier material, shrieking, juddering, chugging shamelessly and blastbeaten. Their debut EP is available for free download, and at eight tracks in just over seven minutes spits riff-guided rage at society's self-centred dark heart. The mission statement claims, “Retox is that reaction to stagnant and boring cultures, as well as the countercultures that have slipped into a sea of pointlessness,” but it could be argued, were you so inclined, that the band themselves are a regression for the core duo, to The Locust's pre-synthesiser powerviolence beginnings and therefore stagnant themselves.
They're really good though, so shut up.
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