BAND OF THE DAY: VON BÖÖM

Fittingly for Swedish crust punks Von Bööm, everything they touch goes up in smoke. Just as they confirmed for this year's absolutely vital (no exaggeration) Obscene Extreme, they not only lost their drummer but their rehearsal space caught fire, costing them all their equipment.

Formed in 1984, one would presume they were either spectacularly inactive and were barely even a band, but it's certainly not bullshit – contributing three tracks to 1986's 'Really Fast 3' compilation. They apparently split and then reformed again, annoucning their return with a whole bunch of compilation appearences, contributing a few tracks of swaggering d-beat gutter-punk to 2008 crust compilation 'Sverigemangel', the  'Äggröran 7'  7” and global punk disc 'Lambination', before finally biting the bullet and spitting out a split with fellow piledriving Swedes Motorbreath and a long awaited full-length, 'Punk Rock Terrorists' on FDA Rekotz.

Needless to say it's explosive.