EP Review: Die! Die! Die! – O

New Zealand’s post punk power trio Die! Die! Die! are set to return with their new EP “O” on the 16th August 2019, The EP is the band’s tenth record and their first since the 2017 LP “Charm. Offensive“. The new EP marks two returns for Die! Die! Die!, one in personnel and one musically. Longtime Die! Die! Die! bassist Lachlan Anderson has returned to the fold after an eight year hiatus, making this the first recording by this incarnation of the band since their 2011 LP “Harmony”. In addition to Anderson being back, or maybe at least partially due to his presence, so is a return to the band’s harsher origins. “Casualties Of Decades” opens up like an artillery bombardment before settling into a staccato assault that has resembles old school US hardcore tha...