Trashy recording with live as fuck drumming supporting a mid-tempo power surge like a six-inch blade covered with dried raccoon guts jammed between your ribs.
Why? doesn’t have a hope of capturing Sentenced or Rapture or Daylight Dies because the production is quite featureless, not to mention they’ve got a power metal guy at the helm.
Pushing the boundaries of hardcore/noisecore with message from the “Big Guy” above (read: God) New Hampshire’s Mercury Switch muscle up some creative ideas.
3/4s of Sunny Day Real Estate. Emotional songs that are worth the wait, but definitely different enough to alienate lots of Sunny Day Real Estate fans.
The combination of the rapidity of the beats, the hard-slicing guitar, and Caughthran’s melodic screaming amounts to the most pleasurably intense and hard-hitting songs.
Moments of fearsome noise here, howls from hell, stuttering riffs to make you look foolish if you try to snap your fingers to it, and plenty of jaw-dropping moments.
One aural peak into Safety in Numbers and you’ll chalk up another victory for the icy country, as drums crack like burning wood, and synths backfire like classic Mercury Rev.