{"id":9664,"date":"2019-11-24T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2019-11-23T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:12:33","slug":"drunken-marksman-decline-of-mankind-blind-destruction-records-mass-production-france-records-not-yet-dead-records-and-armistice-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=9664","title":{"rendered":"Drunken Marksman \u2013 \u2018Decline Of Mankind\u2019 (Blind Destruction Records, Mass Production France Records, Not Yet Dead Records and Armistice Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When ex This System Kills frontman Pig set up Drunken Marksman along with Southy on guitar, Weaver on bass and Loz on drums, who all previously plied their wares in Celtic punks The Guntys, on paper, it made for a very interesting collaboration indeed.<\/p>\n

Would Pig suddenly be going all Flogging Molly on us I wonder? Well one\u2019s things for sure from Classified Protest, through Rectify to TSK he\u2019s always written about the social, political and environmental issues of the time and here with Drunken Marksmen, he\u2019s bringing his rage bang up to date. That\u2019s right I said, \u201crage\u201d (as there\u2019s none of the jiggy stuff here) and this band of musical marksmen really are his angriest sounding mob to date.<\/p>\n

Recorded and mixed by the band at Kinkyfish Studio Abertillery, \u2018Decline Of Mankind\u2019 is the debut eight-track album from the guys and here I am holding a lovely coloured vinyl copy (which you too can own via the Bandcamp link at the bottom of this review).
\nDropping the needle in the groove of side 1 \u2018Proxy War\u2019 and \u2018Snapshots Of Britain\u2019 both mix Motorhead\/UK82 guitar riffage with Pig\u2019s astute political observations hitting hard over catchy gang chant-a-long backing vocals. \u2018Free Europe\u2019 meanwhile whilst initially hinting at Southy\u2019s Celtic guitar past suddenly zips off in a streetpunk direction that really is the business\u2026ahem! Upping the hardcore stakes via the furious 2-minute blast that is \u2018HypoCritic\u2019 the band\u2019s tight as hell rhythm section are tested like no other as side 1 is brought to a speedy climax.
\nFlipping \u2018Decline Of Mankind\u2019 over I have to admit I wasn\u2019t really expecting what comes next with \u2018Dance To The Apocalypse\u2019 a throbbing slab of gothic punk that calls for \u201cno more famine and no more wars\u201d and sounds not unlike early Killing Joke albeit with Max Cavalera singing for them. Stunning stuff! The slightly more prescribed \u2018Drunken Marksman\u2019 is up next and this sprightly tune tells the tale of someone who has to be off their face just to get through the day, whilst the superb bass playing of Weaver makes a return to the intro of \u2018Like A Disease\u2019 a track once again returning to Pig\u2019s Anarcho punk roots. \u2018Decline Of Mankind\u2019 comes to an end with \u2018Default\u2019 and this beast has more than just a hint of The Hip Priests when they fully let rip about it.
\nSo, there we have it folks, \u2018Decline Of Mankind\u2019 is an album of 8 killer tunes recorded and released DIY punk rock stylee with the help of 4 independent record labels, pressed up on coloured vinyl and available to you for just \u00a310 via the Bandcamp link below.
\nTidy!<\/p>\n

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

When ex This System Kills frontman Pig set up Drunken Marksman along with Southy on guitar, Weaver on bass and Loz on drums, who all previously plied their wares in Celtic punks The Guntys, on paper, it made for a very interesting collaboration indeed. Would Pig suddenly be going all Flogging Molly on us I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4046,4043,4047,4048,4045,4044],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-blind-destruction-records","tag-drunken-marksmen","tag-mass-production-france-records","tag-not-yet-dead-records-and-armistice-records","tag-the-guntys","tag-this-system-kills","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","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=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}