V/A:BETTER TOMORROW? vol 2-CD
I have to say, this one is really cheap compilation, almost 60 minutes music on the cd! NO SUPPORT beats every band on Lost & Found label, but this band sounds like some of L & F bands... I think that it is somekind of SxE Hardcore, without knowing what the band stands for..At least good songs with good production and young aggressive attitude. TOTUUS ("The Truth") plays middle of '80s kind of stuff, I was afraid that the band was even more terrible, but how wrong I was. Sometimes it sounds like Terveyskeskus, probably the vocals do it! Not a panic scream, sometimes I can hear what they are singing! But I have to say that 60 minutes long Totuus CD will be too much. KASTRAATIO is a worst band on that CD, but not a shit band anyway. Female vocal and violin screaming. Often violin brings some difference to music, but not in this case, maybe they don´t know how to use it, or maybe I have something in my ears. Songs are pretty good anyway, and maybe I will say something else in future. DISCO. comes from Pori, and you know, they make very weird music in Pori. It´s hard to say something about this band, but very strange (do I hear some NoMeansNo influence?) with English lyrics. Good enough anyway. WIND OF PAIN is Dis-band, which sounds like a swedish band, even they come from Helsinki, get a little bit Anti-Cimex and Wolfpack and mix it well, and you get this one. SHARPEVILLE is a new band for me. What a pleasant surprise!! They sound like some English band in the middle of '80s, specially I get some Conlict or Amebix feedbacks. Propably double vocals, and fuck they sing so many words that I can´t follow. But hell, I have to get more this one.

-Petri Vallin, Finnish punk guide web pages/Hätäapu records

Merwi-records have a new 7" available - again, it’s split (labels speciality) between URBAN RIOT, who sound a bit “West Coast USA” if you get my drift, plying speedy tuneful HC with cry-baby vocals, and HYLKIO, who sounds…Finnish! They pay homage to Fin legends like RATTUS and TERVEET KADET. It’s fast and noisy, with insanely shrieked vocals and I liked it, even if it does sound like it was recorded in a septic tank.
-Ian Glasper/Terrorizer

And Merwi 005 is a split between Yes Means Yes and Odeema. Yes Means Yes are like A.C., a bad joke with the musical prowess of a farting elephant which shouldn’t have ever seen the light of day. There’s 48 songs on their side of the 7" , with titles like “We are losers, but so what?” and “Swallowed your own shit”. Odeema are thankfully miles better, their intensity rising above the quit production.
-Ian Glasper/Terrorizer

The YESMEANSYES/ODEEMA split 7" is a noisy excursion unlike most. YMY stumbles thru 48 blendercore attacks utilizing an upright piano among other things. Odeema brings some sanity and structure back with five straight forward, trailblazing thrashers. Those zany Finns.
-Chris Dodge/Flipside

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“BETTER TOMORROW?” Vol 2
Excellent comp of Finnish bands that span the spectrum of punk, from modern hardcore(No Support), traditional Finnish hardcore (Totuus, Wind Of Pain) to anarcho punk (Sharpeville) and all points in between. The two bands that made the strongest impression for me were Kastraatio and Disco. Kastraatio are an all female band who play bare bones hardcore punk with a violin mixed in with the guitars and drums.. They sound like they could have easily been on the “PEACE” comp, had they been around at the time. Disco are crunchy modern-ish hardcore. The sound is thick with hard hitting rhythms that smack you repeatedly like a ton of bricks. Powerful, yet slightly catchy. The screaming on the song, “Vaneria” is ungodly. By all means pick this up. Great stuff.
-M. Avrg/Flipside

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