Melkus, the naturally grown punk rock project straight out of Leipzig’s deep underground, just dropped Discografia Due LP, and honestly, if you’re looking for a good time, you’ve come to the wrong place, in the absolute best way possible. This isn’t background music for a coffee shop or a carefully curated playlist for a chill evening. This is a chaotic love letter to losing, a relentless sonic document that finds the ultimate joy in failure and celebrates everything that goes wrong. Forget winners, because Melkus is here for dancing between madness and nervous breakdowns, and they sound completely ecstatic about the whole mess. This mini-discography of pure, untamed chaos and noise is Melkus’s way of saying, “We see your dumpster fire, and we’re going to pour gasoline on it and turn it into art.” It exemplifies the good old saying that when everything is falling apart, the only logical response is to scream and make noise. This record grabs the entire fence, rips it out of the ground, and uses it to build a chaotic, temporary monument to beautiful disaster. Musically, Discografia Due is where true sonic mayhem lives. It’s an all-out brawl across the sound spectrum, blending the best properties of punk rock, post punk, garage, and hardcore punk into one single, glorious rush. This album exemplifies controlled destruction, where twisted riffs fly out of the speakers like shrapnel and nothing stays clean for long. The core aesthetic is built on volume and saturation, with distortion as color becoming the dominant creative force. Every single instrument is pushed past its limit, not for shock value, but to achieve a density and feeling that simple, clean tones could never touch. It’s a sound that settles into your chest, heavy and pulsating. The garage influence keeps the sound loose and raw, preventing the post-punk elements from ever becoming too cold or distant. Instead, the atmosphere feels claustrophobic and immediate, like you’re trapped in the middle of a glorious basement show where the walls are sweating and the ceiling is too low. The energy is at its maximum, a furious, driving pace that mirrors the internal anxiety and madness the band is singing about.
Their thematic commitment elevates this record beyond simple noisy punk rock material. This isn’t just about being down or feeling bummed. It’s an active, celebratory embrace of the uncool, the undone, and the inevitable failure. The lyrics are sharp, cutting straight to the core of anxiety and self-sabotage, but the raw power of the hardcore punk delivery gives the message a defiant, almost spiritual lift. When Melkus screams about losing, it’s a declaration of freedom. If you stop caring about being a winner, you stop playing the game, and that’s the ultimate escape. This perspective is incredibly refreshing in a punk rock scene that can sometimes take itself a little too seriously. Melkus uses the chaos and furious tempo to articulate the feeling of a nervous breakdown, turning that sense of being completely frayed and unraveled into a shared, cathartic experience. It’s a sound that makes you feel validated in your worst moments, encouraging you to step onto the dance floor and join people like yourself. It’s an honest response to a world that keeps demanding perfection while constantly delivering disappointment. Discografia Due is a raw masterpiece. The band knows exactly who they are and what they aren’t, and they are unapologetic about it. As a naturally grown project from the trenches of Leipzig’s underground scene, Melkus has successfully transformed a period of intense influence-scrambling into a singular work of pure art. Discografia Due acts as a retrospective document of their sound and a fresh, furious statement of intent. It exemplifies how the unpolished, raw music doesn’t rely on massive budgets or overthinking to connect. This album will connect with every true punk rocker because it’s honest, loud, and uncompromising in its pursuit of noisy perfection. If you love your punk rock to sound like it was recorded in a collapsing basement and played by people who genuinely have nothing to lose, then Melkus has delivered your new obsession. Get ready to turn up the volume and start dancing on the ruins. This is a mini-discography of noise that deserves to be played as loud as your speakers can handle. Head to It’s Eleven Records for more information about ordering this gem.
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