As Snapcase has carried on Refused’s progressive hardcore, they’ve been swept aside by the rise of nü metal and “poppy” hardcore. An unfair turn of events.
The musicianship is stellar, the vocals draw you in, and you can’t avoid bouncing your head and wishing you could hit the high notes so you could sing along.
Successfully meshing skate punk and NYC hardcore into a powerful, energetic collaboration, Reaching Forward make it look easy on their sophomore full-length.
You’d think hardcore, metal, blastbeats and keyboards would never come together to make something interesting to spin, but then again, anything can happen.
I practically learned how to grind from these guys. But by album number three, they’d become as dangerous as Vikings with swords attacking a nuclear submarine.