SCALP - NOT WORTHY OF HUMAN COMPASSION

Coining the phrase “WEST COAST DEATH VIOLENCE” as a tagline for your band is as intimidating as it is ballsy, considering the long list of heavy music gods that have influenced legions. But SCALP stands tall, channeling predecessors like Nails, The Endless Blockade, Iron Lung, HM-2 leaning death metal, the work of the Burdette brothers (specifically Deathreat and His Hero is Gone), Craft and Dead in the Dirt, reducing them to a molten plasma that swallows or leaves everything engulfed in flames. In an era where hardcore has abandoned rules but is still a patchwork of pastiche, SCALP is blazing trails and redefining extremity.  With Not Worthy of Human Compassion, the band’s third LP and latest for the venerable Closed Casket Activities, SCALP returns to the catchy, vein-bulging nihilism that marked their debut Domestic Extremity, adding in the technicality found on the follow-up Black Tar. The result is a flag-flown high and an amalgamation of the maximal elements of heavy music– a f