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Sex, drugs, guns, dirty deals and cover-ups are pulped down to form an incendiary, ejaculatory tract that is neither “complaint rock” nor a feel-good revolution. Mixing the intensity and sonic aggression of old school hardcore with a pop sensibility, Murder Meal Combo is the soundtrack for a world in crisis. Lyrically, MMC comes off like Hunter S. Thompson on even more speed: scathing, scabrous and spot-on. Their cultural sniping at targets from Australia’s blokey football clubs to the rape of young Japanese women by American soldiers in Okinawa blisters with outrage and compassion for globalisation’s victims. In an age of punk lite banality and an oversupply of growlcore, MMC is a refreshing return to the art of political songwriting and the punk ethos of, “say something worthwhile or shut the fuck up”. Starting out as a garage outfit from Canberra in 2004, with nothing more than a bucketload of attitude and a handful of covers, Murder Meal Combo has grown into a band that counts