Erode: Demo ’95 & Tra la strada e la ferrovia LPs
(self-released)
Erode are one of those groups that truly deserve the label ‘cult band’ in Italy. Formed in the mid-1990s by a bunch of football ultras in the northern Italian city of Como, they combined a dark, abrasive take on Oi with Soviet-centric political leanings – Marxist-Leninist to kindred spirits, ‘red-brown’ to the squeamish.
Their fellow townsman Andrea Napoli of Avant Records, in his guest article ‘The Oi! Wave That Could Have Been’, captured the sound vividly: “The oppressive-sounding bass and cawing guitars had an ominous feeling that reflected both the bleakness of the streets of a small provincial town in those days and the kind of gloom one might just as well attribute to a goth or post-punk band”.
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