Absolute sweat-caked savagery, Turkey's Sakatat have that late '80s sense of intemperate chaos absolutely nailed – devotion to the canon of Napalm Death, Agathocles, Sore Throat and Phobia drips from every open wound scream and flailing early MOSH-catalogue riff.Forming in 2005, Sakatat released a bevvy of split 7”s and toured hard, unbelievably hard, getting as far as Switzerland's Mountains of Death, the Czech Republic's Play Fast or Don't and Obscene Extreme (where they recorded, amazingly, a live tape!), and the Netherlands' Bloodshed Festival to underline the respect afforded to this stripped-down three-piece's bloody knuckled grindcore assault by the people who know.
Old school, in every possible sense of the word and hugely prolific, Sakatat have no CD appearances outside of some tour-only CDRs and a track on Power It Up's 'A Tribute to Nasum', so it's time to invest in a deck and grab their array of forthcoming splits, their live Bloodshed fest cassette and more.
To quote my Turkish friend regarding Sakatat "I will let you know what I think about them, once my ears stop bleeding"
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