They’re from Florida, play mind-numbing heavy tunes, grind like stompcore, rip through double-bass-thundering speedcore, and have progressive instrumentals.
The music is cataclysmic, and the atmosphere within the eerie chords, back-from-the-dead vocals, and cymbal-laden hyperspeed drumming is genuinely frightening.
Half Japanese are a genre in and of themselves, so everything they’ve done has been unmistakably them, and the flavor doesn’t change much over the years.
They crush with guitar power, sing so passionately, break down in freaky jazz stylings, and write the catchiest of rock/metal songs without ever bordering on pop crap.
There should be a warning sticker: “Use caution when listening. Contents may rip you a new asshole and leave you turned inside out like a discarded sock.”
Formed from the ashes of doom metal band Vox Populi, it’s not much of a surprise that Reign is as tight as a virgin and as heavily-plodding as Big Foot.