The Casualties – Chaos Sound – Review

A bizarre lyrical-ish intro starts this new work by the American The Casualties. The quartet doesn’t lose its force, besides many years of career, giving us this new album which sounds as aggressive and powerful as the previous ones. Like many bands devoted to wild street punk, tending to hardcore more than to Oi!, they don’t put much innovation into this work, which doesn’t lack power thanks to 26 years of passionately played punk, but whose sound doesn’t excel in originality. Some may find it a good thing that Casualties didn’t change their style, and the way they still catch on with both old and new punk generations corroborates this argument, but besides longer tracks and a better technique they didn’t change their sound radically. This doesn’t mean it is a bad album, it is very good indeed and it doesn’t lack curiosities such as a cover of “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.” by Motörhead (R.I.P. Lemmy Kilmister). “Chaos Sound” can be defined as a new blow violently struck by the quartet of kids with a replaceable head (to quote Richard Hell), who coherently continue along the path they took in 1990, thus reinforcing their role of worldwide anti-system icons.

TRACKLIST WITH RATINGS:
1) Intro //
2) Chaos Sound 7.5
3) Visions Of Greed 7
4) Running Through The Night 7.5
5) Brothers And Sisters 7.5
6) Murder Us All 6.5
7) Work Our Lives Away 6.5
8) Countdown To Tomorrow 6.5
9) Fight For What’s Mine 6.5
10) Keep Your Distance 6
11) In The Lost City 7
12) Bomb Blast 6
13) R.A.M.O.N.E.S. 6.5
14) Halfway To Hell 6.5
15) United Streets 6

ALBUM RATING: 7

Reviewed by A.E.
Translated by E.C.