### Freebase: My life, my rules

#### 09/02/03 || Lord K Philipson

The last album of the batch Hatesphere-vocalist Jacob sent me, and also the one I had least expectations for considering all about it looked hardcore to me and hardcore is definitely not my cup of menstrual soup…

I thought.

Then Freebase invades my speakers and I´m kinda impressed. Fucken, fucken, fucken. This grooves. I´m pretty much shocked to be perfectly honest. I didn´t think for a second I´d be into this but as mentioned elsewhere, I think all bands suck until they prove me wrong. Freebase just did. I was never into piss-bands like Biohazard, I guess people would say this sounds like Biohazard or something, I don´t fucken care. This is cool. As I´m typing this I can see my right foot stomping a steady groove to the fast parts of Freebase. What the fuck happened?! I´m not into hardcore. I don´t wanna be into hardcore. I have to surrender. From now on I like one hardcoreband. And Freebase it is. Congratulations guys. The Lord likes you. Now send me fucken money before I change my mind.

As always with hardcore, the riffs are simple. Only Freebase make those simple riffs catchy. Drummer Paul knows how to beat those skins but what I like most of this release is Mark´s vocals. Not to mention the actual songs. Good riffs make good songs, Freebase understood that from the first chord of the album. This fucken crap gets me into a good mood. I wanna get me a fucken liter of booze and get pissdrunk, do some slam-dancing and punch someone out. That´s definitely a good sign coming from me. It´s not exactly to Freebase´s disadvantage that they throw in some metal-riffs here and there either… They know their shit. I have no idea what kinda bands they listen to but I´m positive they kill them all.

And if I say so, it is so.

I´m impressed fuckers, good work. Now impress me one more time with the next album. If you can.

“Old school, new school, I ain´t one to judge. Which one of these is best as this music´s in my blood”.

Fucken amen.

7/10

- Information
- Released: 2002
- Label: DieHard
- Website: www.freebase-ukhc.com
- Band
- Mark Fieldhouse: vocals
- Paul Appleyard: guitars, backing vocals
- Neil Forrest: bass
- Simon Fox: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Septic
- 02. The Cull
- 03. S.O.S.
- 04. Force Fed Life
- 05. Back For More
- 06. Nothing To Regret
- 07. Blood For Blood (Revenge is Sweet)
- 08. Stay Away From Me!
- 09. Respect 2002
- 10. Suicide Note
- 11. Weakness of Thought
- 12. Cunt Hunter