"What I love about Hydra is that they take the spirit (in the purest form I've seen for awhile) and indeed the vocal style from old-school anarchopunk stuff then mash it up with a totally contemporary groove, backed by distorted samples used as rhythmic noises and incredible junk-metal percussion. If you think of Test Dept at their angriest, then multiply it by 23, you're in the right region. I can't even describe the sheer force of it on paper. Even if you don't listen to the lyrics (an inspired collection of politicised soundbites/slogans), you only need to hear a few seconds of Nick in action to know he's sorely pissed off about SOMETHING."
Rattler
Review from the Organ magazine...organart.com
HYDRA – Worship Your Diseases (Kairotic) – Proper industrial anarcho bone-grinding that could only really come from the deepest pits of London town. A blend of the oldschools; front-line London shouty anarcho punk and banging industrial rhythmic intensity. A blend that fuses and without ever losing that vibe of days gone by, moves the whole thing forward a more than healthy disease or two forward – a future groove 28 days on. A new global noise attack – sample-laced soundbites, spoken filmoid slices and splices, pounding rhythms and cross-kissing sins – tribal thrusts from the very best test departments pushing the slogans and the brickbats and the holy wars.... Risen like leech women and pitchshifting in the finest of ways, Hydra are doing a little more than just being another industrial punk band here, Worship has depth, it has craft, bits of Throbbing Gristle bouncing of bits of Crass and A Guy Called Gerald and driving the sound of conforming free speech and contradiction and warnings foretold and you will conform...Your diseases are to be worshiped. Hydra have crafted a more than healthy industrial punk rock album, don’t let it pass you by.
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I have to add another comment, you are fucking awesome its like all the best bits from too dark park and early a guy called gerald and all that. well impressed! fucking A!
