Band:	Blindfisted
Album:	Blindfisted
Style:	D-Beat, Speed metal
Release date:	December 2014

01. Roadkill
02. A River Where Everyone Shits
03. Idolize Me!
04. The Abyss Awaits
05. Vote For Lunch
06. The Whispering Rocks
07. In Return
08. Gå Vekk
09. The Riders
10. Consensus

With almost every track featuring some kind of guest appearance, Blindfisted sometimes seems like a compilation album. I mean that in a good way here though. It all feels like a celebratory kind of thing, like an album for parties made by partying people. With a track-list of bite-sized proportions, the album goes from sounding like Toxic Holocaust at one moment to Kvelertak at another, from Aura Noir to Girlschool, etc.; it alternates quickly enough that it never stales.

It all does sound a little too clean though. It's light on distortion, but its hygiene is the result of more than just that (plenty of pissed off and primitive metal and punk discs cool it on distortion). There's a rubbery slap more than a punch here. It's like a drunk fun-noodle battle at a pool party more than the grimy fisticuffs you get from other crust and d-beat albums. Sounds like crust made by crustlords with easy access to soap and showers.

Those are minor gripes when it comes down to it though. This isn't an album that emphasizes its textures or anything highbrow and Darkthrone-esque like that. Blindfisted comes at you too hard and their homage-paying sounds too good for you to excusably care, especially on a first playthrough. They sound too good.

This might not fist you blind or even blind you fist, but it's catchy as hell. And catchy in the good, crusty way. Its hooks always seem to come from the left and are never at the expense of its angry, d-beating heart.

Highlights: "Ga Vekk," "Idolize Me," "The Whispering Rocks," and "Roadkill"