Anyone hoping that Paul Bearer is fronting a Sheer Terror clone is in for a big shock. He’s letting ST fans know he’s moving on from that period of his life.
Dennis Ostermann releases sonic masterpieces wrapped around the theme of the album title. Holy is an 11-track collection exploring the effects of religion.
Tried-and-true yet shrieky and fatiguing screechy production, a re-use of alien themes, that caustic caw, and those almost doomy tower of power chords.
Their first two were filled to the brim with sonically-perfect, brutally-satisfying slabs of deathblasts. Believe it: The Negation is the best one yet.
Under a whitewash of a noise, grind, and indie rock-based hardcore – no doubt possessed by Fugazi and Unsane – comes an unrelenting and out-of-control outfit.
“East Coast hardcore collides with West Coast melody” nails it. Bad Religion would be the easiest harmony to reference, but Good Riddance is more accurate.
Blends a fairly basic New Wave sound with an eerie darkness, which yields an album that is more Goth/synth than Joy Division could ever hope to produce.