(Crust / Melodic Hardcore) Momentum (Members of Plague Mass, Light Bearer, Fall of Efrafa and XZieglerX) - Whetting Occam's Razor - 2011, MP3, 320 kbps

Momentum formed in 2011, featuring members of Plague Mass, Light Bearer, Fall of Efrafa and XZieglerX, playing driving, epic heavy and melodic DIY hardcore punk, both crushing and uplifting, ignoring sub-genres and getting back to the basics of why we love playing fast political music. Influenced by the words of Carl Sagan, and other luminary thinkers, the music forms around a set idea, that of our place in the universe, the hatred and anger and stupidity of a species of ape, on a small insignificant planet, but also our ability to look beyond these facile ideas and appreciate and begin to understand the awe of the universe.
Momentum is a DIY melodic hardcore band, a group of friends who came together to play the music that fundamentally changed the course of our lives, reminding us of how our identities were influenced by the words screamed from scratched CDR’s and mix tapes, the idea that the world was suffering beyond the four walls of our suburban middle class bedrooms. It was hardcore punk that, besides how much we loved the music, made us consider our place in the world, and our effect on others, be them human animals or non human animals. We wrote this record over a few months, and recorded, mixed and mastered in four days. It represents our passion and energy, to invoke the bands that brought us here, and the politics that define us.
We support the pursuit of a society that considers all life equal, to create a civilisation that adopts the monicker of “civilised” – to treat not only all human animals as equal, but to bestow those rights upon non human animals. To model a society on empathy and respect which will take us beyond this state of play.

Matthew Bunkell: Guitar, piano, voice
Gerfried Ambrosch: Guitar, voice
Olly Stubbs: Bass, voice
Joseph Towns: Drums
Alex CF: Voice, lyrics