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burning sons
artist: Burning Sons
title: Reduced to Equality LP
label(s): Mystic
price: $8

Last year Milwaukee’s, Burning Sons, was given the honor of having their debut 7″ EP be the first new release on Mystic Records in 20 years. Now one year later they are repeating that honor with putting out the first new 12″ EP. This EP follows the same formula they used on their debut and it’s mid-1980′s sounding, no-nonsense hardcore. There’s obvious influences of Murphy’s Law and the Cro-Mags with the slightly metallic guitar sound and chunky riffs but the metal influences are slight and really only add some extra punch in the nice guitar sound they have. They have a great old-school sound and had these guys been putting out these records during the Reagan administration then they’d be treasured collectors items today as the music is easily as good as the stuff that I grew up on when hardcore was still young.