Album Review: Disposable – It’s Blood That Trickles Down (Self Released)

Scottish thrash groovers, Disposable wrap up a phenomenal year with the release of their brand-new album, ‘It’s Blood That Trickles Down’. Out on November 30th, 2024.

You have got to love the Disposable approach to thrash metal. Where they simply deliver short, sharp, and heavy shocks to the system while infusing head banging and body shaking groove into almost everything they do. Fourteen of them (fifteen if you count the cover and even more if pick up the vinyl), beginning with a furious sounding commentary on needless gun violence called 40 Guns.

Disposable bring the heavy from the start, putting stupid smiles on head banger faces. Before delivering even more intense ire on varied subjects like greedy landlords (Snakes on Ladders), trickle down economics (the title track), the elite (Eton Mess), genocide in Palestine (Complicit), the implosion of the Tory party (Demandatory Suicide), and everyone’s least favourite person, Margaret Thatcher. Disposable have a lot to say and do so in the angriest of fashions.

Personally, it’s a beast like Binkicker that ends up hitting the hardest. Not just because it is fast and feral, but because it nails a feeling and does so in spectacularly heavy fashion. Or a brilliant ‘call to arms’ like Gnash, which makes the point that we’re way more powerful than any of us think we are via a hardcore punk infusion that gives this music an even rawer feel.

Then there’s the likes of Politics, which is about five-seconds long and makes its point abundantly clear. There’s Figured Out, which is hilariously thrashy, will resonate with all the cynical buggers out there, has a screaming guitar solo, and turns out to be one of the album’s most anthemic efforts of all.

How about the raging Born in A Hearse? The vocals here are freaking wild, but the groovy switch is head banging gold. The ‘on the nose’ intensity of of Violent Repercussions? Or the fun Beastie Boys cover that is Tough Guy? This is a banging album right up to the very end.

Want more? Pick up the vinyl edition and you’ll get even more bang for your buck. First, with the track Stomp Your Feet which is another head banger, but with a more chilled tempo and interesting variations on the vocals. It’s a track with a chorus! Then there are two live tracks, Shatter and Complicit, before the remainder of the record showcases demo versions of tracks from the main album. Nothing that can be called necessary listening (aside from Stomp Your Feet), but nothing to complain about.

It’s all about It’s Blood That Trickles Down, a record that delivers monstrous thrashy and groovy heaviness in lovable Disposable fashion.

Disposable – It’s Blood That Trickles Down Track Listing:

1. 40 Guns
2. Snakes On Ladders
3. Bin Kicker
4. It’s Blood That Trickles Down
5. Eton Mess
6. Gnash
7. Politics
8. Figured Out
9. Complicit
10. Born in a Hearse
11. Demandatory Suicide
12. Violent Repercussions
13. Too Bad
14. CBA
15. Tough Guy (Beastie Boys Cover)

Exclusive Vinyl Bonus Tracks

16. Stomp Your Feet
17. Shatter (Live)
18. Complicit (Live Debut)
19. 40 Guns (Demo)
20. Eton Mess (Demo)
21. It’s Blood That Trickles Down (Demo)
22. 50 Thousand Dead (Demo)

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