They play a fast blend of anarcho/crust punk who even find its root into the earlier discore. With rumbling double bass-drum and metalic grinding guitar the guys rock. Most of their lyrics are social/politic minded. Ungovern-Mental is a band from the suburbs of Montreal.
A brief Historic:
I first met the Mentals, mostly unknown under the name of Scrap at that time, as me and my band where looking for a local to reharse.
Contest, the band of a friend of mine, was moving into a underground local with Scrap. By pure luck Pat, the guitarist of Contest,
asked us if we wanted to join them and so share at 3 bands the rent fees. We jumped on the occasion and that's when we met Scrap.
The original line-up in October 1995 was made of Dave and Martin on vocals, Pat 'Bug', guitarist, Olivier, bassist, and Pipi as the drummer.They made a few gigs and had a little set, It didn't take too long before Pipi was thrown out of the band for many reasons. It was Charles, our drummer at the time, who replaced him. They recorded their first songs (2) for a compilation.
Due to a terribly awfull performance in December 1995 at a sugar shack party the band almost broke up. Charles and Martin where really pissed off and were talking about quiting the band. Martin left the band short after. It was then that came Jean-Phillipe. This line-up lasted until May/June 1996 time wich found J-P thrown out. Meanwhile the band managed to gain some notoriety' with many shows (Montreal,Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Ottawa) and recorded first true record a split tape with Antipathic System.
Ungovern-Mental in Philly December 96
From then Dave held the vocals alone and the line up stayed the same. In June 1996 they recorded 4 old songs in Quebec City for a slpit 7" with Disagree and that found later to be distributed by Profane Existance. From June 1996 to February 1997 it was the band's Golden Years. With a tour and many gigs/punk-fest to the Usa (Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Grand-Rapids, Philly). But as all good things have an end, somewhere in spring of 1997 the band broke up for many internal reasons.
From now, Dave had played with Disagree, Charles now held the drumsticks for Seized. Although they have reharsed a few times and maybe one day they'll finally record the last set of songs played live but never recorded.
