BURNING KROSS, by Burning Kross

BURNING KROSS

by Burning Kross

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One-sided 12" with screenprint on the B-side and riso-print A5 booklet.

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1.	BURNING KROSS 02:43	lyrics
Bombs still singing And my ears still ringing Blue and red You might as well be death Hard to fight the night Just to prove you’re right Burning corpses Bur-ning Without any guilt Shot and killed Burning corpses Bur-ning Envy and greed Keeps them warm Makes them bleed on the burning cross Born without a face To be dumped in unmarked graves Don’t feed the flame Of the Burning cross
2.	HUNTED DOWN 01:40	lyrics
Ain’t no debate No win or lose One takes it all All the abuse The other one stays and getting used The young men die as the old men weep They’ve sent you out to win the fight but in the end when you return You stand alone in mud and blood Three hundred and eighty thousand Black soldiers haunted A long hard life by the shadow of the gun Waiting, waiting and waiting Till their time is done Ain’t no debate No win or lose One takes it all All the abuse The other one stays and getting used And it in the end Black soldiers Hunted down A long hard life Till their time is done
3.	DIE 01:55	lyrics
If we must die Let it not be like hogs Round us Bark the mad Hungry dogs Die If we must die Let it not Be like hogs Like men We’ll face the pack Die If we must die Let it not Be like - hogs Trapped Jailed In the grip of misery And the hungry mouth - of despair If we must die Round us Bark the mad Hungry dogs Die If we must die Let it not Be like - hogs
4.	GREENWOOD 03:16	lyrics
Aaah Jim went to the gents And tumbled on the floor Someone heard her scream Jim got all the blame They put him after bars And kept me their all night Taking back the town A white mob marches on Do you feel that heat Bur-ning Clouds of smoke Covering the fray Feel the hate Smell the fear Greenwood is a pyre Do you feel the hate Bur-ning A white mob attacked The soldiers fought back The ground is still red From the blood of the dead Black men being shot Black bodies in the streets Smell the fear and feel the heat Smell the smoke and see the hate Feel the hate Greenwoods’ burning Greenwood’s burning Greenwoods’ burning Greenwood’s burning Black men being shot Black bodies in the streets Greenwood’s burning Do you feel the heat Do you smell the fear Clouds of smoke Covering the fray Feel the hate Smell the fear Greenwood is a pyre Do you feel the hate Bur-ning
5.	HANGMAN 01:24	lyrics
Hanging from the shame Filled with pain Freedom never knew your Freedom never knew your Freedom never knew your Freedom never knew your Living and breathing Tortured and beaten Fighting to lose Nailed to the wood Breathin’ in smoke Covered in burns Fear and depression Screaming and crying All that you where Hanging from the shame Filled with pain Freedom never knew your name Nailed to the wood Breathin’ in smoke Freedom never knew your Living and breathing Tortured and beaten Freedom never knew your Hanging from the shame filled with pain Freedom never knew your Freedom never knew your Freedom never knew your Living and breathing Tortured and beaten Fighting to lose Hanging from the shame filled with pain Freedom never knew your name
6.	CHAINBEAT 03:41	lyrics
Every turn, every step Breathing on your fucking neck Metal hanging From your wrists Bleed the poison you can’t resist Cuts and bruises On repeat Hear the chains Keep that beat Through pain And through suffering I know you will rise once again You will rise And with the glory placed upon your name These chains Will always break Pressed to the wall We will face the murderous pack Not dying but fighting back And let us make sure That If blood must flow Let it flow Oh let it flow All over the country Cause chances are you got too much If you feel If you feel the pain In every touch Feel the pain In every touch Chances are you got too much Feel the pain In every touch Chances are you got too much Feel the pain In every touch Chances are you got too much Feel the pain In every touch Chances are you got too much Every turn, every step Breathing on your fucking neck Metal hanging From your wrists Bleed the poison You can’t resist Cuts and bruises On repeat Hear the chains Keep that beat

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This one-sided 12” (with a sick-looking Keith Caves drawing screen printed on the b-side) is the debut from Belgium’s Burning Kross. When I think of Belgian hardcore, my mind goes to Dead Stop, and that wouldn’t be an off-the-wall comparison for Burning Kross, whose music also owes a big debt to early 80s US hardcore and has a tough, slightly sludgy quality I associate with oi!-leaning hardcore bands like 86 Mentality and Negative Approach. While that’s a big component of Burning Kross’s sound, they’re not just that. In particular, I like the way they hang on their breakdowns for a long time, like on the track “Greenwood,” whose breakdown section takes on a hypnotic quality as the band squeezes the riff dry. The production is crisp but gritty, and the band sounds brutal and heavy, but also light on their feet. Interestingly, the lyrics for these six tracks tie the record together under one concept, all of them relating to the 1921 bombing of Greenwood, a black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From what I understand, white Oklahomans tried to erase this neighborhood through a coordinated campaign of arson and bombing. The event was covered up and largely forgotten until a 2015 article in The Washington Post drew new attention to the story. It’s an unexpected lyrical focus for a hardcore punk band from Belgium, but their hearts are in the right place and I appreciate the history lesson, which adds some lyrical heft to Burning Kross’s punishing music. - Sorry State Records

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released August 20, 2022

All songs written by Burning Kross in Goedleven, Oostakker.
Recording & Mixing by Matthias Halsberghe at Track & Goedleven
Mastering by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.
Artwork by Keith Caves.

Out now on Loner Cult Records & Autoreverse Records.

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Burning Kross Belgium

20.04.2024 - Posthuis, Wuustwezel w/ Sportweekend, Minding Dolls

27.04.2024 - WhamJam, Kuurne

05.07.2024 - *crucial show*

06.07.2024 - Siegen, Germany
14.09.2024 - Drachten, NL ... more

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