���� Picked up this vicious EP from the Denver, CO wolfpack Civilized that came out a little while back on Youth Attack. While it's not the sort of fucked-up and/or black metal influenced hardcore that we usually get from Youth Attack, these guys do deliver a killer EP here, their no-nonsense, infuriated hardcore punk barreling across this 7" at full speed. A resurrection of the burliest and ugliest strains of late 80s hardcore punk, these eight tracks are captured via a somewhat blown out and low-fi recording that accentuates the snarling, drooling, deranged aggression that Civilized unleash. Violent nihilism backed up with excellent, almost poetic lyrics that raze the emptiness and artifice of modern life, delivered by a singer who sounds genuinely evil. Worth checking out if you're into raw, rage-filled stuff like Total Abuse, Raw Nerve, Nazi Dust, and Suburbanite. Typical quality packaging from Youth Attack, the thick vinyl record housed in a printed inner sleeve that's situated inside of another arigato-style foldover sleeve, all adorned with stark black and white images of dissolution and death, issued in a limited edition of four hundred copies.