Swedish powerviolence band Xiao have been ripping it up for some time now, forming in 2019 and releasing a handful of EPs and promos within the time since (take a look at 2023’s Burn) and now they’re primed to drop their first full-length, Management. It’s a fairly no-frills, straight-to-the-face affair, drawing from one of the best elements of powerviolence, basic hardcore and a shot of D-beat.
Although it isn’t out till Might 2, Decibel has an early premiere of Management‘s title observe. Mixing the band’s punchy sound with incendiary political lyrics (“My nation’s on the market / All the things could be purchased / Low costs to remain free / What we constructed is gone”), it’s a good suggestion of what to anticipate on the remainder of Management.
The tune’s message speaks on to the state of Swedish politics, but it surely’s one thing that Individuals and people wherever else on this planet can undoubtedly relate to:
“This can be a tune about what has-been Social Democrat Håkan Juholt calls Klägget, ‘The Goo,’” explains guitarist Daniel Pilsäter. “In Sweden, politicians and coverage makers are free to pave the best way for the long run guide profession, and break down the framework of Swedish social politics created trough the 1900s. I had been sitting on the opening bar of music for years, and eventually discovered a approach to end the tune. It additionally options our first correct guitar solo.”
Management is out on Might 2 through Twelve Gauge Data. Pre-orders go reside at 9am on March 7, and could be discovered right here for the US and right here for Europe.
