While your average hardcore kid in Czech Republic bought their first 7” long after the fall of the Iron Curtain, there’s still a contingent of Slavic rabblerousers amongst their ranks that were raised on bootlegs and black market purchases of punk and metal records prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Sure, your “walls of death” at the arena concert might seem dangerous, but your hero’s albums are at every record store and the concert was brought to you by some major media conglomerate. It's a far cry from the days of Czech bands like Hrdinové Nové Fronty, where going to a show meant risking police harassment and buying a record was like buying drugs in a back alley.

Fortunately, we have Prague’s REPELENT SS to remind us of the antagonistic and illicit roots of punk in the City of a Hundred Spires. Manned by a motley assortment of local lifers—drummer Aleš of powerviolence ensemble SKIPLIFE and hardcore miscreants G.U.T.S., guitarist Vorel of local punk legends HANBA and anthemic post-punkers KOVADLINA, bassist Jirka of sludge group GOSPEL OF THE FUTURE, and vocalist Tomas of dark hardcore kings FLOWERS FOR WHORES — REPELENT SS are less a band and more of an agency of chaos and pranksterism set to a soundtrack of fast and furious misanthropic hardcore. Emerging from an 8-year recording dormancy with the four-song Kauf EP, REPELENT SS are back with both a sonic vengeance and a continuing predilection for self-sabotage. The EP opens with “Bloom,” a two-minute rager featuring a guitar solo by Domenic Romeo (Pulling Teeth, Integrity, A389 Records), and continues to pummel the listener for the entirety of the record’s five-minute runtime. REPELENT SS Kauf EP is available digitally as well as on 7” courtesy of Crocodile King Records and Mighty Morphine Power Violence Records.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Bloom (ft. Domenic Romeo)
02. Kauf (ft. Amák)
03. Judita
04. Blafák