Kohti Tuhoa are back with a new album. The Helsinki crew just announced Paratiisi, and they've dropped "Valmistaudu Sotaan" to kick things off. If you know this band, you know the drill.
These Finns work the D-beat tradition hard, all seething fury and forward momentum, and they sing only in Finnish. That has never once been a barrier. Rage translates. "Fuck the oppressors" hits the same in any tongue, and Kohti Tuhoa (Finnish for "towards destruction," fittingly) have been proving it for years.
Fans of 2017's Ihmisen Kasvot know how sharp this band gets when they lock in. The new track carries that same white-knuckle drive: fast, mean, relentless. A total ripper.
Paratiisi looks set to keep their run going. It's another chapter for one of the most reliable punk outfits working the international underground right now.
You won't understand a word. You'll understand everything. That's the Kohti Tuhoa promise, and this belter delivers it again.