All good things must come to an end, and Kung Fu Rick’s “Coming to an End” does just that. After being a band for seven years, the members decided to call it quits with one last record. With this being their last album, the appropriate title was the one they created. This album, on 625 Thrash Records, may be a hard one to listen to for many people because it’s on vinyl and I don’t know too many people who have record players in their dorm rooms or apartments.

Twelve songs of venomous thrashcore are here to bite your head off with the first note. For those not familiar with thrashcore, it’s the political lyrics of punk times three, so the songs are about a minute long.

John Finaldi’s ferocious drum blasts and double bass drum and Dave Rudnik’s dark and menacing bass lines added with John Mendola and Jason Zadora’s guitar riffs and the dual vocal assault from Ryan Durkin and the Dark Enforcer seep painfully through the listener’s ears.

The lyrics on this album run similar in themes to previous records, but still touch on fresh ideas. On “Red Shirt White Shirt Blue Shirt Torn,” Durkin and the Enforcer attack advertising, popular name brands and how the brand names go for certain types or groups of people. “Advertisers and the media have trained us all. It doesn’t matter what’s on the inside anymore. They get the right one and the rest fall behind.”

In “Online Journals and Bathroom Urinals,” KFR calls out the people who hide behind their online journals. “Regurgitate your loss to communicate. Broken heart, the cry of graphic arts. Intelligence shy of relevance.”

On the song “Coming to an End,” the listener is left to wonder if KFR is singing about themselves or someone else. “It’s long past time to move on. Some already have, but apparently we are too blind to get out. It’s time to come to an end.”

Don’t worry fans, although KFR broke up, the members belong to many Midwest/Chicago area punk/hardcore bands. Rudnik is in Seven Days of Samsara from Milwaukee. Durkin, Zadora and Mendola all team up in the grindcore outfit called He Who Corrupts.

The album shows growth in this band from previous releases. Sadly, it is their last album. But if you go out, go out with a bang – they sure did.