ULTRA PULVERIZE - "Gorillas in the Fist" LP

Ultra Pulverize - Gorillas in the Fist LP (Sophomore Lounge, 2025) "“It’s just three guys; they have a bodybuilder guy rapping over a drum machine and a synthesizer.” A friend at the time had done his best to describe the opening bands for the evening, one of them named Ultra Pulverize. This unusual description would only be the FIRST time that Chris Vititoe, Andrew Vititoe, and Jared Busch would defy my expectations. I had immediately made some sort of presumption based upon the name as the trauma still lingered from the onslaught of lame, unoriginal hardcore “punk” bands that had names like that in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Those bands did their best to project an artificial toughness but were almost always just well-to-do white guys from nice neighborhoods who never could effectively shed the antiseptic sheen of their coddled upbringing; however expensive and loud their gear was and whatever agresso name they adopted for their summer aural hobbies. So- a synthesizer? A rappi