Music Reviews of Hardcore, Crust, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore

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Their vocalist reminds me so much of the dude from Rapider than Horsepower it’s crazy. Daughters has come and conquered the spazz grind scene from the crust punk and tech-metal kids who made it a little too cool to write chaos into a 3-minute opus of filth. Engineered by Andrew Schneider whose resume includes some beguiling and bewildering entries like Keelhaul, Cave In, Blue Man Group (what?!), and Scissorfight, “Hell Songs” rests close to Oxbow and the Dillinger Escape Plan occupying that artistic land like an Israeli squatter in an illegal settlement in Gaza. Spastic hardcore that fans out tickling and tantalizing your senses with dissonance and discordant guitar fantasies. Huge percussion with speedy double bass enters in spicing things up for a gracious out-of-control high-speed spin. Imagine if the chaotic whirlwind of Melt Banana took things into art rock’s arena, smoked a lot of Doomriders’s weed (an outfit they toured with), ate a pasture’s worth of magic mushrooms, and took enough crystal meth to make a trailer park blush. That’s the first image that comes to mind. Now sit back and imagine what would happen if you listened to the entire album? Juicy guitar that bites your hand off. Exhausting song structures that don’t have a prayer of being replicated by even the most fantastic and studied musicians. Blast beats with paroxysmal shifts in tempo and time signatures that change on the drop of a dime. Heavy metal was a concept that came up a long time ago but it never really meant anything until Daughters showed up.

- J-Sin

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