EP Review: Prison – Come, Annihilation (Self Released)

Seattle punk three-piece Prison returns with Come, Annihilation, a heavy, sarcastic six song EP for cynical assholes and longhairs alike. Prison’s brand of hardcore is a sweaty mix of metal and punk informed by Bad Brains, Burning Love, Karp and Melvins, with panicked riffing and tongue-in-cheek lyrics that embrace death’s crushing inevitability. Come, Annihilation is a searing indictment of the arbitrary binary of Western morality. And you can pit beef to it. It’s the fucking end of the world. Who lives? Dies? Who cares?

Come, Annihilation will be released on March 29th 2019.

Noise…Prison make a lot of noise with a clear punk ethos wrapped up in hardcore energy. Six tracks of wild riffing, fast-paced rhythm and a raw sound that harks back to the punk days of old. Into the Pit as an opener is clearly designed to get the pit bouncing and it’s easy to picture a heaving, sweaty mass of people losing their mind to it.

The longest track on the EP, Who Lives Who Dies Who Cares comes next. Somehow more frantic and uncontrolled then the opener. The guitars are an absolute mess of feedback and fuzz yet they fit the hardcore punchy vocals perfectly.

After what was quite an expansive track for Prison, they fire off a couple of short and ferocious numbers in a row. I Do Not Value Life, I Welcome Death and We Live in Filth are short and angry tracks.

Come, Annihilation concludes with The Smell of Flesh, the slower guitar riffing offset by the shouted gang vocals of the title. A nasty finish for a nasty EP.

Prison – Come, Annihilation Full Track Listing:

1. Into the Pit
2. Who Lives Who Dies Who Cares
3. I Do Not Value Life
4. I Welcome Death
5. We Live in Filth
6. The Smell of Flesh

The EP can be ordered over on Bandcamp and more information found out via Prison’s Facebook Page.