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Black Hatch Premiere “Salty/Sweet” Video; One More Bite Out Now

Posted in Bootleg Theater on March 24th, 2021 by JJ Koczan

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New Hampshire heavy punks Black Hatch released their third full-length, One More Bite, late last month through King Pizza Records. The record is the follow-up to 2016’s Kill the Buzz Kill and their 2015 self-titled, and if you want to chart the growth of the band, an easy way to go is to take a look at the places you can’t rock. To wit, on the debut, it was “Can’t Rock in School.” On the second record, “Can’t Rock in Church.” On the new album, it’s “Can’t Rock on the Clock,” i.e., at work. So here we are. Are Black Hatch more mature as a unit than they were six years ago? Inevitably, yes, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still driving through One More Bite‘s 11 tracks with full-on punker brashness and a willingness to, say throw around a bunch of junk food, to make their point.

In the video for album opener “Salty/Sweet,” they do precisely that, and in doing so, they bring to mind the addictive nature of corporate “big food,” and the engineering that’s gone into addicting America to things like potato chips and other well-branded stuffs — read Michael Moss — but of course the cravings the band is describing are applicable to more than just eating, and so is addiction, so make of it what you will. Throughout songs like “Old Blood Road,” the dare-to-slow-down-a-little “Doomed” and “Fear and Hate,’ they rage and rage and gnash, but there’s a control to what’s happening as well, a plan that comes through in rhythmic changes, the structural foundations of the material and the intertwining of leads and riffs, evoking chaos but not giving in to it wholly and having the whole thing fall apart.

As one would hope and expect, the record’s a hoot and the vibe is go. “Salty/Sweet,” a deadly and perpetually tempting combination tricking our lizard brains into survival mode, puts it more succinctly than that, and is to be commended for it. I wouldn’t know personally, but there’s much to be said for just getting to the point of the thing, and Black Hatch do that well.

So here goes. Enjoy:

Black Hatch, “Salty/Sweet” official video premiere

Black Hatch on “Salty/Sweet”:

“Salty/Sweet is about always needing one more bite and being run by your cravings. While shown in a comedic light here, it was/is a true vice. Special guest appearance from Bella the cat. The amount spent on food used in this vid was matched a few times over and donated to a local charity. Hope everyone is doing okay out there!”

Black Hatch ‘One More Bite’ available now via King Pizza Records: https://bit.ly/3vyUF70

You’re smoked up and down to that last little bit and you just need ONE MORE BITE. Well, Black Hatch is here to give it to ya! Stoned but not alone, get all your buds together for a dip into this house show in cassette form. Pass it around and dig into the thick, thick fuzz. You can’t shake it off, so don’t even try.

Limited ed. of 100 black (hatch) cassettes. Comes w/ digital download.

Black Hatch, One More Bite (2020)

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