Peasant- The royals of S.A. Hardcore
On 18 June 2019, Facebook was flooded with one of the best music videos in South African history. The video for Life’s End opens with a shot of every band member and leads up to pure black and white brutality and Adri Jordaan (vocals) stomping on your last damn nerve. Peasant is back and giving us what we wanted for so long; an excellent performance with metallic riffs and “lekker moerige” drums. Adri, Pieter, Immanuel, Keagan, and Graham (what a mouthful) set the bar really high with the music video and it seems like these dudes are gonna break Europe, put it back together again, and stomp on it until it can’t take no more. In a good way, of course. One might even find some Doom elements lurking in the shadows, or is that just me?
The first single to make waves was Destined to Dirt, released earlier in June, and features Ross Hallam of Conqueror on vocals. You could tell from this initial release that they are not here to fuck around. With Life’s End and Destined To Dirt served as an Entrée, you can only expect the main dish to be a five-star combo of thrashing punk and metallic hardcore.
The album challenges a set of social rules and opens the mind to a state of awareness, for me personally it opened channels of less self-awareness and more taking a step back to view the state that the world is currently in. It is in a way an ode to the rebellion against social standards and expectations. Unrest Eternal channels all the right things: anger, aggression, despair and the overall horror of existence. It almost makes you want to stop being a socially influenced succubus.
After the first listen I kept wanting to go back. This is probably the most to-the-point album they have released and if I might add, the most diverse work the band has put out. There are hidden elements of different genres peeking through, just enough to make it more interesting. Hints of death metal are evident throughout the album and add to the hard-hitting contagious sound of Unrest Eternal. This just isn’t that type of album where you feel like skipping to a certain song, each song is packed with its own magnetic sound. It draws you in and spits you back out.
Can we also just take a moment to appreciate the fact that the album is available on vinyl too? Peasant has without a doubt provided us with music from the hardcore gods. Packed with serious vocals, hard-hitting sound, incredible artwork, and contagious headbanging.
- Mia van den Heever
Peasant- Unrest Eternal
Roastin’ Records
Track List:
Life’s End
Sirens
The Road
The Wreckage
Roots
Ligature
Destined to Dirt
Earth Breaker
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