Contention have newly issued a three-song EP titled “Nuclear Summer“. The Floridian straight edge metallic hardcore band delivered that effort via DAZE today, August 21st, and included the tracks “Second Sun” and “Blank Stare” on it. They chose to close it out with a medley cover of The Swarm‘s late 90s tracks “X On Our Knees X” / “Upside Your Head“. Vocalist Cosmo Vidussi stated of this release
“Modernity brings no enlightenment, only more refined methods of annihilation. Annihilation of the enemy. Annihilation of the self. Our leaders have shed their increasingly thin facades of humanity. The masses shamble through life in a drug and media fueled haze. They worship a machine that grinds them to dust and uses them for fuel. Cities are leveled in our name. Bombs are assembled with our tax dollars. We’re held hostage by a small group of deranged degenerates with nuclear arsenals and a lust for ruin.
Are these the final days? Or is the suffering of modernity only a single day swallowed by a quarter eon of unchecked brutality?
Two new tracks: Second Sun and Blank Stare. Two covers by The Swarm, a band we’ve cited as an inspiration since our first band practice in 2019. Nuclear Summer, hardcore for the end times.”
