Metroschifter

The Metroschifter Capsule (Conversion)
by Joshua Brown

I like what the kids are doing with hardcore these days. The genre appears to be progressing. Metroschifter can be thought of as a hardcore symphony. Besides having complex rhythms, and crescendoing and innuendoing riffs (I don’t actually know what these words mean, by the way, so you can’t hold me to my last assertion), they have two cellists, and an upright bassist. They’re from Kentucky, and have 99 songs on this CD. Actually, they rigged it so the CD player would add one to the song count two to 23 times in the same song. So there are actually only 14 songs here, but your CD player will tell you otherwise. That was mighty clever of them, I think. Roughly the first half of the album is abrasive but highly listenable scream/crunch rock hardcore. I liked that part. The next third is live acoustic stuff with the guy actually singing. Stick to screaming, guy! The next third is humorous, random babble with no instruments besides the sound of a toilet flushing. Oh, and I didn’t tell you that they packed one half and two thirds of a CD all on to one CD. That was pretty clever of them, too.