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Ho99o9 review – power and panic from pogoing punk-rap firestarters

The Garage, London
With their abrasive anthems, the New Jersey duo could be the spiritual successors to the Prodigy’s Keith Flint

Ho99o9’s punk-rap provocations are made for performing live. The New Jersey duo’s 2017 debut, United States of Horror, full of sandpaper-throated vocals spilt over Bad Brains-ish guitars and electronic carnage, was compelling but essentially a vessel for their stage show, the pair’s calling card since emerging in 2012.

The duo (pronounced “horror”) still have the energy of those early days, if not quite the same destructive streak. They make this much clear across a set at breakneck pace. Tag-teaming vocalists Eaddy and theOGM don’t emerge in wedding dresses, smashing all equipment in sight like they did on 2015’s Warped Tour, causing their removal. But they still pogo around the stage like misfiring pneumatic drills, as abrasive anthems erupt around them: Mega City Nine from November’s Cyber Cop EP is a molotov cocktail of slasher-movie screams that sends this evening’s sell-out crowd into a panic, while Forest Fires outstrips even the chaos of Death Grips, the Sacramento noiseniks Ho99o9 often draw comparisons to.

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