BAND OF THE DAY: ABSOLUTIST

Maybe the smell of refined crude oil drifting over from the North Sea rigs is making the air especially dense and leaden, but Aberdeen based (although two of them are from Ireland, which sort of explains their presence on an "all-Irish" mixtape) trinity Absolutist are cloaked in a sense of thick, tarry menace.

Formed in 2010, they've already toured fairly extensively and released one EP, the foreboding 'Blasphemy' (which you can download for free here). All of which indicates a certain cold, hard vision driving them forward in their blend of atmospheric, d-beat-heavy crust, which brings the pounding apocalyptic hardcore of the latter to the fore, instead of swaddling in the syrup of the former, as is currently in vogue.

There's an album due in the summer (so, soon) and a US tour planned in 2012.