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.
Mellow atmospherics, tender organic instruments, whispery vocals, distinctively French songwriting, and clever studio know-how bringing the whole pot together.
Gorecore done by the originators. Gorerotted love Carcass and The Ravenous but apparently also learned a thing or two about syncopated vocals from Deicide.