The Shape of Punk to Come: New York's HARAM Unleash Frantic Arabic-delivered, Japanese Hardcore-influenced شو بتشوف؟ "What Do You See?" EP (Toxic State Records)
شو بتشوف؟ "What Do You See?" by HARAM " Nader Habibi is a frizzy-haired and heavily tattooed Lebanese-American from Yonkers, New York . He has a fondness for mesh tank tops, large earrings, and raging Hardcore Punk . Two days after improvised bomb attacks left New York City tense and frightened, HARAM have dropped the follow-up to their well-received 2015 DEMO ," Noisey scribe Tim Scott wrote within a September 20th-published HOLY SH*T profile. Scott's of course, referring to Arab-American Punks HARAM 's latest quick-strike Emil Bognar-Nasdor recorded EP, شو بتشوف؟ "What Do You See?" which is noticeably influenced by Aggro-Rap "darlings" Death Grips , Japanese Hardcore, and Toxic State Records' acclaimed Ground Zero NYC 2013 comp. While I can't exactly decipher much of frontman Nadir Habibi/Haram 's blood-curdling, often bellowed Arabic lyrics (aside from English translated titles), the sentiment first echo...