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Chiodos
Perhaps no one can explain the sheer ferocity and timid quietness it is better than when vocalist Craig Owens says “we don’t want to let the kids down” when discussing the group’s intense vocals live at shows. Well they never let a single kid down with their vicious assault on the ears and grip on the jugular...
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Fight Pretty — Rewiring the Human Body Buy it at Amazon
Having just seen “Transformers” I almost feel like the album’s title is meaning something robotic and unfeeling. But I was sadly mistaken when Fight Pretty’s unpretentious brand of passionate and very human sort of hardcore is unleashed. It reminds one of Converge, the Locust, and Undertow. Having toured with the band of brothers known as Ed Gein, Misery Index, and Animosity, Fight Pretty shows that their approach is not only friendly to the ears after a visit to the studio but sounds pretty intense at a live show too. Angular guitars attack the air that surrounds their singer whose prose flows from nostrils and lips that bend harmony in ways it was never meant to amid screams and yells that make Jacob Bannon look fucking sane.
- J-Sin
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