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Jazmine Luders From Cursed Earth Told Us Her Favourite Abums Of The Year

These are the sounds that have fuelled the Perth noisemaker's 2017.

Our brothers released one of the biggest metalcore releases Australia saw this year. If you aren’t already about this band then you’re overdue to start.
Straight up, no bullshit, arse-beating music. We fuck with it.
Our label mates embracing the weirdness and completely coming into their own on this release. It's always copping heavy van rotation.
Given the pedigree of this band there was zero doubt this album was going to be making a bunch of these kind of lists.
This record is a masterclass in hard riffs, catchy lyrics and punchy vocals. When it dropped there was an incredible the amount of self-professed, old hand hardcore “retirees” that flooded to social media to vocalise their long irrelevant stamps of approval. Regardless, it has ours as well.
RIFFS FOR DAYS!
Can’t fault this dude. His voice is unique, his phrasing is flawless and his videos are super vivid and engaging. We bump this hard.
This is one of my most played of the year. Bones has this DIY work ethic that you can’t step to and it demands admiration. The way his tracks all run strong themes which tie in flawlessly with his visual output make this dude the whole package.
We went out with Deadlights on a tour with Thy Art is Murder midway through the year. They play proggy rock and killed it every night. Flawless, clean vocals, big hooks, great dudes, and a great band.
Pauly will tell you this is the best Australian punk band of all time and you’d have a hard time disagreeing with him.

This is the year we well and truly fell for Cursed Earth. In a big way. So naturally we wanted to grab one final chat with vocalist Jazmine before we dig into our Chrimbo dinners, to find out what's soundtracked her year. She was kind enough to oblige, after she caught her breath and looked back at what's been a whirlwind 12 months.

"2017 was easily our biggest to date. There was The Cycles Of Grief, our first few headline runs with Statues and Shackles respectively, a sold out tour with Thy Art Is Murder, Europe and the UK with Make Them Suffer, a stack of sold out local shows and our last East Coast date being our first sold out headline Melbourne show really topped off 2017."

Quite the list of achievements. Fair play. Not that it's been done without taking some toll too.

"It wasn’t without its aches and pains! Two of us and our manager went to hospital after catching the flu on the Thy Art Is Murder run and I dislocated my shoulder after we narrowly avoided a massive car accident in Europe."

This is just the beginning though. Next year is theirs. 

"Nobody is ready for the 2018 we have planned," she promises. "We'll be starting it off with the sold out Unify festival and following up with the massive Download Australia. Oh, and we’ve just started tracking our best music yet. Brace yourselves..."  

Consider us braced, Jaz.

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