If this is their magnum opus it doesn't make me excited to ever check the rest of their output. While it functions wells at times, this largely concentrates things I usually don't like in hardcore: monobloc vox that sacrifice rhythmic fluency to try to fit too many lyrics to the singing, random ass breakdowns, and songs that are very clearly destined to the live setting (in which tbf I would probably break my neck to them so that would work) but that don't really work otherwise as music to lsiten to. This is all very clear from the first track. The riffs even feel clumsy. 2-3 feel a little more ok and straightforward wiht a bit of a thrash metal vibe, whilst 4 is ok at being bourrine, but ends abruptly on a solo and leaves a feeling of meh yet again, which is continued by 5 though the track presents the only breakdwon that actually works and doesnt feel dumb. 6 pays itself the luxury of a proper intro, but its unfold doesn't work for me. There are a couple good riffs near the end, but yea the band does not convince me. It does not riff ahrd enough to just rely on headbanging, yet it doesn't really try to offer much else. 3.2
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