There’s something cleansing about no-bullshit, full-speed-ahead hardcore. It’s sort of like sandpaper. You feel like you can rub it against anything – politics, dogmatism, bad jobs, being penniless, and marginalized – and by its abrasive friction, it makes things shinier. Hitting darkness with its own form of rough force. Now that Victory Records is courting boy bands, it’s high time that hardcore get reclaimed by bands like these, who take cues from Negative Approach, From Ashes Rise, and Deaththreat. I like Balance of Terror a tad more. They’ve already broke up, and it’s a shame. I always wonder at bands who go so fast but can weave in different ways and actually hook a melody deep inside the fast-moving blades, dropping cues on how the genre can redevelop itself instead of merely repeating.
–todd (Partners In Crime)