Get Acquainted With Nosferatu Before They Knock Your Head Off

Nosferatu aren't here to dick around. The Austin band lay out no bullshit hardcore punk that rips with thrashing guitars and gasping vocals. Led by Albert, who also fronted the equally raging Recide, the band have so far released a demo and live tape as well as some rejected tracks that were meant to be part of an unspecified compilation. Like the best hardcore bands they are to set to one speed (fast) and one emotion ('overturning tables' rage).

Their new 7', Sounds of Hardcore, was released at the tail end of last year on Lumpy Records and continues with their frantic pace that's been likened to Void and that fleeting 5-minute feeling of experiencing a cool band on an average Friday night lineup before your world and week falls back to mundanity and morass.

The band are playing this week as part of the second instalment of hometown shindig This Is Austin, Not That Great, a festival for fans of true hardcore punk. This is four days and nights for the loose units to get mad. There's no waiting for the garage rock bands to finish up before they can start destroying the joint, because there's no garage rock bands on the bill. Like the name says, this features the best local and out of town hardcore acts at the minute including our favourites Hank Wood and the Hammerheads, Secret Prostitutes, Exotica, Krimewatch, and Acrylics.

The fest kicks off Thursday with an appearance by the one and only Tommy Wright III and will end four days later with a bunch of punks walking around town in a beer and Xany daze.

Listen to Nosferatu's "Kill the Pride" and check the This Is Austin, Not That Great II lineup below.

This Is Austin, Not That Great II
Jan 5 - 8, 2017

Jan 5 - @ Barracuda
Tommy Wright III
Power Trip
Skourge
No Come

Jan 6 (Day Show) - @ Hotel Vegas
Burnt Skull
Wild Thing
Bad Example
Drool
The Leash

Jan 6 (Main Show) -  @ Barracuda
The Secret Prostitutes
Green Beret
Exit Order
Tozcos
Firewalker
Warm Bodies
Enemy One
Sex Pill
Plax

Jan 6 (After show) - @ Shirley's Temple
Migraine
Bondage
Army
Hiss

Jan 7 (Day show) -  @ Hotel Vegas
Skeleton
Savage Blind God
Holder's Scar
Exotica
Acrylics

Jan 7 (Main show) -  @ Barracuda 
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads
Blood Pressure
Pure Disgust
Aggression Pact
Haram
Krimewatch
Dame
Leather Daddy
Body Pressure

Jan 7 (Aftershow) -  @ Shirley's Temple
D.L.I.M.C.
Breakout
Strutter
Blue Dolphin

Jan 8 (Day show) @ Hotel Vegas
Vaaska
Impalers
Cadenaxo
Gamezan
Prision Postumo

Jan 8 (Main Show) @ Barracuda
S.H.I.T.
Concealed Blade
Patsy
Mommy
Nosferatu
Elix-r
American Hate
Program
The Real Cost

Image: Will Mecca