If you like your punk rock raw, unhinged and filthy, put the new Powerband album straight at the top of your playlist. It might be all you listen to for the rest of the day, leaving the people around you wondering why you are even more amped up than usual. Powerband sounds like D.C.’s scrappy answer to Melbourne’s Split System, winning you over fast with their feral rock-‘n’-roll and never letting up, steamrolling their way deep into your system while greasing your heart with motor oil.

Recorded in a basement in Arlington yet sounding like the kind of house party you wish you had stumbled into, Life on the Death Machine is relentless from start to finish.  By the end, you may find yourself wondering how to enroll in their Death Machine cult. This is absolutely killer stuff. And if you are here for the covers, their thrilling take on Working Man by Rush is definitely worth the ride.

Powerband is Carl Deluxe frantically hitting with sticks and Codi Roach wielding everything else, with Bob Seger hovering somewhere in the background as spiritual guidance.

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