Drugs - Bude Horšie (2021)
By Flork!
Well, first of all, Happy New Year to everyone. It’s 2022 and we are going into what I believe is our third year of the prequel to the zombie apocalypse, where some of us are still hoping that things return to the way they once were while others, myself included, anticipate darker things to come. I mean, really, let me be truthful for a moment. Things aren’t getting better despite the encouraging news the media keeps telling us. Perhaps this year we will defeat all the viruses we are currently coexisting with and maybe we will all go back to the office or the classroom. But for many of us, things will never get better, like those who have lost family members, or jobs, businesses, homes, or those who will never get out of debt or see their children or parents or spouses again. As I sit here in the dark in my makeshift home office, I contemplate this for a moment. Now, I don’t want you to think that that Flork! is a complete nihilist, no, that would be misleading, since I do want the best for each and every one of us. However, I try to be realistic. Could it be that the pessimists are right and see the real picture ahead of us, while the rest of us choose to avert our eyes?
I take a long sip of my coffee and press play on the first track of Bude Horšie (It’ll get Worse) by Drugs, which is called Ničota (Meaningless or futile) and think, how appropriate it is to be listening to this on the second day of the new year. This is an in-your-face track with great riffs and timing. The intro of the second track Neznaboh immediately turns from suspenseful mystery to full-on assault and then comes full-circle. I listen to the remaining tunes and conclude that Pach (Stench) is my favourite track on the album. This is the longest song on the album (just over 5 minutes) with the other seven tracks coming in at less than 4 minutes. But I also have to give credit to the final track Plano which ends the album beautifully, and not on a positive note (note the title of the album).
Bude Horšie (It’ll get Worse) by Drugs is a must for the any death metal head’s collection. The entire album is played with extreme talent and fuses death metal, black metal, and crust beautifully. I don’t have much information on this group, as all I can tell from the bandcamp.com website is that they come from Eastern Slovakia, but there is no doubt they carry an amazing sound. The album was recorded as well as mixed and mastered at Tetradrot studio in Vranov nad Topľou and released just a few weeks ago in December, 2021.
I play the album once more and I’m still intrigued. These guys have loads of potential and can compete on any level with bands from anywhere around the world. But of course, playing good music isn’t a competition, it’s about expressing the dark and bright sides of ourselves in a language that doesn’t need words. Oh my, I’m becoming poetic. Bude Horšie masterfully foreshadows what’s to come in the upcoming year. Raw, hard and brutally honest, Bude Horšie is a power-packed punch in the face, a wake-up call to those led by false hope. After all, things usually get worse before they get better.
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