Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts

27/02/2013

Brafcharge-ep 2013

The most amazing thing about this band is the country of origin: Brafcharge is a quartet from Johannesburg, South Africa, they include a girl in their ranks and they " started out at the end of 2011 as a one man UB40 cover band. In 2012 Braf gathered a few more members, and decided to end the terrible reign of shitty, limp dick pop punk that was doing its rounds in joburg and pta". Braf is an afrikaans nick-name for 'brandy' it started out as a joke page on facebook. I don't anything about South African punk scene but a nice source for a starter about this scene is South African Punk Downloads, i have already dug some cool bands.
 As the whatever-charge name and the Discharge letter font reveal, this is another D-beat dis-band, bands mentioned as influences in their fb page are Discharge,  Disclose, D-clone,  Shitlickers,  Motorhead, Wolfbrigade. Victims, Disfear and  UB40 (what??? oh c'mon Braf!). I could say this is rather closer to Discharge and Dischange and 80's D-beat than D-Clone and Disclose with a slight taste of Motorhead filthiness in guitar sound. As Kesley (drums) said "although disclose and shitlickers were our original influences our sound changed once we all started playing together and had different musical styles and also different D-beat prefferances" from Japanese  to kang/Scandi d-beat. (Thanx Kesley!)The ep is currently only in mp3 format and will come out soon  as cd (thanks for the info Scrony!), it consists of  six songs and nearly twelve minutes of  D-beat hardcore. Old good Discharge lovers will like this little piece of shit. Members of Brafcharge are involved in JV And The Carburetors( Crossover Thrash / Hardcore Punk)
No more rant, go ahead and listen some South African D-beat.

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