Pitchfork Forkcast: On Repeat: Disfear: "Get It Off" [MP3/Stream]

On Repeat: Disfear: "Get It Off" [MP3/Stream]

In 2004, the Swedish d-beat pioneers Disfear first touched down on American soil. Since their inception, in 1992, they'd lost one vocalist, Jeppe Lerjerud, and gained another, At the Gates' Tomas Lindberg. When they arrived in Philadelphia for the Pointless Fest that was their stateside debut, the American scene they'd helped spawn was waiting. As the quintet (bulked up by the new addition of Entombed's Uffe Cederlund) looked on, the bands who'd worshiped them from afar-- Tragedy, Kylesa, Artimus Pyle, even their countrymen Victims-- paid tribute.

Four years later, Disfear have taken the American adoration to heart. Live the Storm, their first release since 2003's Misanthropic Generation, was recorded in Massachusetts, by Converge's Kurt Ballou, and sounds it-- it's louder than anything they've done before. The quintet haven't strayed from the Discharge worship of their past, but they've added a few things as well. On "Get It Off", melodic leads mix with Motorhead-large riffs, gangs of furious Swedes sing backup on the choruses, and Linberg sounds ready to lead a mob. As he told Decibel in November: "I try to look at it all like it's still just hardcore rather than just defining a genre from a drumbeat...Then again, we have Disfear t-shirts that say 'Defenders of the D-beat,' so we're probably guilty of that as well."