Brigata Vendetta are primed to release The Disease and the Cure 12” on Pirates Press Records, the much-anticipated follow-up to the 2024 LP This is How Democracy Dies.

Brigata Vendetta are a force to be reckoned with in the famed Bay Area punk & hardcore scene. This Long Player, shit, sorry short player is fifteen minutes eight songs of muscular hardcore with no fat, just lean mean brutal zero fucks given loud rock n roll fast as a shark and as brutal as Motorhead at their very best.

Trust me on this one, frontman & bassist Darrel Wojick & guitarist Mike Caputo as well as Bum City Saints drummer Brian Zobel completed the trio that to simply call a power trio would be a massive injustice. This album rocks like fuck. Just listen to the second track ‘Killing Me’ with its groovy opening bar and hell for leather verse its a swift kick to the bollocks in the best possible way. Darrel always had an awesome, rough n ready rock n roll vocal, but here it is on fire. He barks out the lyrics like they’re spat onto a fist and punched right into the listener’s face, brutal but equally wonderful.

For sure its built around classic hardcore with the drive of a circle pit, like closing your eyes and being whisked away to a CBGB wall of death streetpunk barfight. The Brigata Vendetta sound is that of unrelenting rage against the power.

And how has that sound evolved since the first LP? If anything, both the lyrics and the music have gotten heavier & darker, reflective of a world of chaos & iniquity. ‘The songs are more intricate without sacrificing speed or aggression.’Modern Sins’ is to the point and puts a target on the real enemy

Lace up your bovver boots because the jewel in the crown is the rapid ‘Corporate Control’ from the filthy Bass line to the wild and reckless guitar solo, this is fuckin’ awesome! not a second to spare but delivers its message lyrically and musically sweeping everything aside, this is where it’s at in 2026.

If you’ve felt the seething fury at the greed & brutality we are all subjected to on a daily basis, then the 8 songs on this record are for you. You can take that to the bank or just turn it up and inject it into your veins via your speakers, but be prepared, this record takes no prisoners.

The Disease and the Cure by Brigata Vendetta is available from Pirates Press Records on 12” Evergreen Vinyl with Black Splatter, with a silkscreened B-side. It will be available wherever you buy your most pissed-off punk records. It might not be in the slightest original, but it raises the bar on what hardcore should sound like in 2026. Fuckin killer record now go buy it!

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Author: Dom Daley