Download: 400 Blows, ‘We Killed Like Champions’

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You could compile quite a list of world events that have transpired since Los Angeles trio 400 Blows last released an album in 2005. What hasn’t happened, thankfully, is that 400 Blows have gone soft. Their searing new album “Sickness and Health” is as uncompromising as ever, another notch in the belt for the hardcore punkers who’ve earned respect from (and tour gigs with) the likes of At the Drive-In, the Locust and Mars Volta, but not the commercial success. Known for their teeth-rattling live shows, singer Skot Alexander, guitarist Scott Martin and drummer Kevin Fitzgerald have followed up “Angel’s Trumpets and Devil’s Trombones.” with another helping of power-tool guitars, machine-gun rhythms and in-your face lyrics, again eschewing the one-note screaming that make so many hardcore bands unremarkable. It was refreshing back in the day, and now it’s good to have them back.

||| Download: “We Killed Like Champions”

||| Live: 400 Blow celebrate their record release with a party at Vacation Vinyl on Saturday, then play the Echoplex on Saturday night, opening for Butthole Surfers.