Bandcamp of the Day: Reek Minds

Reek Minds is a Portland hardcore band with a taste for chaos and a surprisingly strong sense of melody. They unveiled themselves to the world with their well-received self-titled 7″ which dropped via Edger Records in 2020, and have now followed it up with an equally brazen 7″ titled Rabid out on 11PM Records. Just looking at the cover, an image of a man overwhelmed by a spectral wall and personified death, whose brain is literally boiling over out of his skull as it splits open like a hardboiled egg with a cracked shell, you’ll probably be able to guess what is in store for you here. Reek Minds plays ’80s hardcore with the speed of a grindcore band and the animalistic abandon of goodwill and optimism a la late ’90s power violence. Rabid will stomp you into th...