{"id":28636,"date":"2026-06-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28636"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:21:43","slug":"hot-load-realized-drunken-sailor-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28636","title":{"rendered":"Hot Load – ‘Realized’ (Drunken Sailor Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever had a bad day and just needed to let off some steam? Well, here’s your soundtrack. Take a blast of ‘Exotic Weapon’ and thank me later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve ever seen the Michael Douglas film Falling Down well, this is the soundtrack to your own Falling Down. From the over-the-top bass fuzz of Motorhead to the rampant, nasty punk rock of GBH or The Dead Boys, Hot Load has it all swirling round the drain and out of the speakers and into your ears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They released an album in 2025, \u2018Fate Unknown\u2019 – it saw the LA five-piece embrace sounds outside of hardcore and expand their influences to reach a wider audience without losing any of the rage, anger and downright nastiness they have harnessed. Imagine the metal of say a Midnight or Motorhead hanging out with the noisy punk kids, then making a record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subtle punk attitude is raging through ‘Wodowmaker’ as the vocals sound like there’s been one too many Lucky Strikes, no filter smoked in some darkened late-night speakeasy while gargling bleach n jack Daniels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They sound like a band at the end of their tether and straining at the leash, but have found guitars and volume to exercise their demons. ‘Blood Damage’ is a full-throttle rip ride with a great big dirty Gluecifer kinda riff that will cleanse the soul and fill your black heart up with the right stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Hot Night’ is a fuzzed-up slash and burn born in some Zeke meets Motorhead wet dream fantasy that only has Discharge or GBH to be your lullaby tunes to settle down. There’s no slowing down either, this is a steam train of noise that’s hurtling outta your speakers until it hits something so hard it shudders to a halt. ‘Salvo’ is terrifying and sparks flying until the blood drains from your body and the band spontaneously combusts. The record closes on a real high as the title track signals all-out war. Check the schedule to see when these bad boys are rolling into a town near you because seeing is believing, and these songs are made to be played even faster in some sweaty shit hole of a club with fellow believers who kneel at the altar of Rock n Roll and have also given up their souls to the Gods of everything that’s louder than everything else. Get this in your ear and turn it up, you can thank me later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever had a bad day and just needed to let off some steam? Well, here’s your soundtrack. Take a blast of ‘Exotic Weapon’ and thank me later. If you’ve ever seen the Michael Douglas film Falling Down well, this is the soundtrack to your own Falling Down. From the over-the-top bass fuzz of Motorhead to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1256,3100,1100,9108,1343],"class_list":["post-28636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-discharge","tag-drunken-sailor-records","tag-gbh","tag-hot-load","tag-motorhead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28640,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28636\/revisions\/28640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}