Them, the first LP from UK hardcore punk trio SATANIC MALFUNCTIONS, is out now via Poland’s demolition experts, Selfmadegod Records. The newest LP from the Scarborough, UK-based act since their 1990-released Disgrace To Humanity, Them is a whirlwind of old-school hardcore punk; a throwback to the mid-late ‘80s hardcore scene when grindcore was only beginning to take shape. Surging with rabid, old-school circle-pit intensity and politically-oriented, cynical and pissed-off lyrical tirades, Them dispatches twenty tracks in just over thirty minutes, resulting in one of those “get this now” releases for devotees to acts like Active Minds, Disorder, Doom, Atavistic, Electro Hippies, L’arm and Heresy. Recorded by Bri Doom, of UK crust legends, Doom, Them proves that the quartet -- vocalist Kai, guitarist Yaga, bassist Ryan and drummer Ade -- haven’t let their guard down, and are as capable of deploying the same aggressive, ultra-fast and frenzied socio-political musical melee they did more than two decades ago. [Selfmadegod]