You can find this in the album "Never Say Die" released in 2005. Fans have never doubted that this will be a brand new scene for Chinese Street Punk music.
The music that has shocked and inspired us is undoubtedly great, but in our eyes, there is nothing greater than refreshing them with our own thoughts and sounds. Anger looks cool, but love is more real. Everyone has a completely different world in their eyes, and it requires sincere experience and action to present it, not anything else. PUNK does not form cliques, but uses music to gain popularity and uses ideas to reject mediocrity. In short, you will understand this more clearly in the music of Fault Band.
"Punk music is not a tool for entertainment after a good meal, nor is it a small memory of the trajectory of life." After the band finished saying this, they walked all the way to 2013. In 2008, the album "Social Outcast" was released.
The name of the first intro is "I have a dream". It's obviously Martin Luther King's famous speech. This song unexpectedly uses a string arrangement, which is majestic and compact, with tight violins and snare drums, foreshadowing a kind of restlessness and courage to move forward in troubled times. And in the background is Martin Luther King’s passionate speech. If you hadn't been told that this was the opening song of a street punk band's album, you would have thought it was a movie soundtrack, and it was an extremely grand and spectacular scene. But you are wrong, this arrangement was produced by Zhang Ning, the lead guitar player of the band Fault. Although some of the processing is still not full enough, as the opening of a new album, it is powerful enough. When the song lasted for 2 minutes and 10 seconds, it took a turn but it naturally gradually entered a strong punk flavor. Oh, this is the fault. But the fusion of classical and punk music is quite harmonious. The former is deep dignity and the latter is radical madness.
The Fault Band seems to be establishing their monument in the Chinese punk subculture scene, just as the new album producer Brian Hardgroove said, using the power of entertainment to fight against power. Brian Hardgroove comes from Public Enemy, a "revolutionary" black political rap group in New York with Martin Luther King as its spiritual leader. The Demerit he created in the recording studio has a strong imprint of American rebel music, both in music and expression. The most obvious thing is in the Intro/D.E.M.E.R.I.T part of the album, when Li Yang shouts "No" The noisy, blurry but magnificent recording of Martin's "I Have a Dream" speech before I Will Be an Obedient Barcode Man. Here, the spiritual transmission is indeed boundless.
If you are not careful, Brian's presence and his production traces will easily confuse the listener with the protagonist of this album. This is obviously very unfair to Demerit, who themselves are a group of fighters. . Prior to this, Demerit was formed in Qingdao in 2004, and then moved to Tongzhou, Beijing. In 2006, after "Sexy Muscular Man" Zack, an American black market boxer, joined as the drummer, the band's style suddenly gained a strong "competition" " style, the punk and rock structure has ups and downs, the drum beats are like the drummer's dense and clever boxing ring attacks, and Li Yang's voice is very unique among Chinese punk singers and has a strong sense of power, sincerity and even Sexy. This makes this rebellious, ferocious, militant and sexy street punk band difficult to determine its definition of "street", or whether it has a hard rock flavor of street punk, but in any case, this makes Demerit They began to receive a warm welcome in Beijing, which also attracted the attention of record companies, and helped them combine and reform with Brian. This transformation came after Du Shuai replaced Zack who left Beijing, and was almost carried out on the tracks of the original album "Never Say Die".
Zack's departure caused Demerit to lose its original competitive sexiness. After Brian, his production and integration skills of various elements made "Bastards of the Nation" steady, deep, and wide, and even its original indulgent turmoil was gone. The melodious keyboard melody, square declarative guitar cadenza and neat and strong rhythm appear more rational. Therefore, in the long chorus, Demerit's rebellious power appears "formal" and majestic. No matter what, this work sounds to have a very high production level. It is no exaggeration to call it the most authentic punk + hardcore rock album in China to date, and for good reasons.
Once again, if we are not careful, we may allow some of the personal touch of the album to slip away from the grandeur our ears hear. This may also be a slight mismatch between the lyrics and the music. But this is an excusable deviation, or in other words, it is another way of expressing anger against society: expressing resentment against social exclusion with a wandering mood of a foreigner, just like the title of the album: Social Outcast. Demerit lives in Tongzhou, a poor eastern suburb of Beijing. After experiencing a second drift from Qingdao to Beijing, and from the center of Beijing to the suburbs, it is natural that the "deviant" artistic rebellion can heal some wounds. But exaggerating this wound undermines Martin Luther King’s larger statement. However, as listeners, we are too demanding on their minds. After all, musicians are not politicians, but a kind of musical entertainment, and then convey their opinions through enjoyment. Therefore, compared with many other domestic bands, from the perspective of music, band temperament, and expression of social opinions (Li Yang deliberately In terms of elaborating each lyric in detail and communicating with the listener in a rare way), Demerit has performed almost perfectly (so far) in its new album "Social Outcast". In 2011, Fault Band and German thrashcore, d-beat punk band SS20 simultaneously released their latest collection on W.I.F.A.G.E.N.A. Records, four continents, and seven countries, including China's "Rhizome" label. The cover design strives to bring people back to the nuclear holocaust of the 1980s, with its poison, flames, chaos and urban nightmare. The combination of hardcore, street punk and metal was considered by fans to be a crossover style.
These three songs mainly express the band's deep influence from Misfits, Motorhead and Iron Maiden. It is quite different from the previous pure street punk style.
These three pieces have old-fashioned percussion rhythms mixed with smooth and impressive speed metal guitar grooves. The final part of "Childhood Nightmare" with flamenco-style guitar is even more surprising. SS20 is the second time they have released a split with a Chinese band. This time their three songs have more cool melodies than before, but the fierce speed has never changed.
But the band members didn’t care about its definition. According to the Grault Band, the three works on this vinyl do not represent some kind of change in the band's style. They are just works from the past few years. These three works were reserved for this release for the release of the "Social Outcast" album. Among them, the works of the Fault Band: "Out Of The Fog" (Out of the Fog), "Barefaced Lies And Bullshit Peace", "Childhood Nightmare" (Childhood Nightmare); the works of the SS20 Band: "The Taste Of The New", "Heilige Scheisse" ”, “Rest In Peace”.