Formed in the summer of 2019 in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Yatsu incorporates elements of grindcore, power violence, and metallic hardcore into their raw, chaotic brand of noise. Taking its ponderous title from the Sinclair Lewis novel (without further confluences with it), the phrase (and debut album title) “it can’t happen here” speaks to the delusion of the United States as a whole being an impenetrable stronghold and could never decline.