Forming in 2006 in Petrozavodsk, in Russian Karelia atop the bones of numerous forgotten wars and shifting borders of states left unrecalled by history, and out of the ashes of various local punk and hardcore bands, Antimelodix have morphed from chaotic practioners of tightly monomaniacal metallic crust to the sort of bulldozer, lightning riff d-beat of Disfear and Wolfbrigade, albeit with a dark, melancholic moodiness that it's tempting to say comes from the bleak, windswept landscape they call home, and a similarly inspired black metal intensity.
Recent 7" EP 'Hellfuck 2011' on Angry Voice Records, streamable below (and pay to download), even has touch of the tooth-spitting grind 'n' roll raucousness of Malignant Tumour in its pugnacious cocktail of utterly vital pummelling punk rock, that this passed muster on a recent tour of the Finland and Sweden, the homeland of tightly honed d-beat, is a pretty hefty endorsement.
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