I'll admit it. Sometimes I'm a little slow on the draw. Some bands just take a bit longer to hit for me for one reason or another, and The Chisel was one of them. I've dipped in to check them out occasionally since I first heard of the band back in 2021. I'd hear someone giving them a bit of hype and I'd queue up a couple of songs, but then would quickly move on when I wasn't really feeling it. Maybe I was just stuck on Chubby and the Gang, and didn't want to allow any other UK bands to come close to that style, but I could not ride with The Chisel... until earlier this year.
Say what you want about Spotify, but it has straight up introduced me to so much music. Earlier this year, when I was listening to the Spotify radio, which builds a playlist based off of your listening tastes, it threw the song So Do I at me. I heard the song and had to check to see who the band was... and then a half hour later they were serving the song Unlawful Execution, and at that point I figured that I needed to pay closer attention to the band. I saw there was a newer pressing of the record available, and the vinyl was looking good, so I quickly added one to my cart.
This record is really good. I tend to think that I'm not interested in the Oi sound in hardcore, and The Chisel gets that tag a lot... and that may have been part of why I was so hesitant... but this is good fast hardcore with plenty of snotty attitude, and I dig it. When I picked up Retaliation I had no idea that The Chisel had a new album out this year as well, so I'm definitely going to have to track down the What A Fucking Nightmare record at some point too.
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