Coma Regalia : "Marked'

I love my hard core the darker it is.  Much in the vein of bands like Portrayal of Guilt, grind core, power violence and screamo are wrapped up into the equation. That is find I already own all the Agnostic Front albums so do not need any more traditional hard core today at least. I have heard these guys' name , but my first time really giving them a listen. The longest song on this thing is two and a half minutes. The challenge for these guys is how much song can they cram into these bursts. After a keyboard intro they only allow for about 40 secs of their explosions into the first song. They show me more of who they are on the second song and squeeze the whole snap shot into a minute."It's Grip Closes" opens with a melodic riff before throwing themselves into it. The syncopation is really cool in places . These guys do in fact care about songs. It seems they need just over a minute in order to make it dynamic.

There is more punk to "In Submission" . Just under two minutes seems like it's the optimum length for what they do. They never wear out their welcome. The long song is " Vigour Transmit Failure" it is very sonic . I like where they go with it. The emo in screamo can be felt in the guitar. Even more melodic guitar opens "Shelter By the Mountains Tree' which has union vocals shouting out against it. I like the angular nature that still manges to flow gracefully. The 49 second explosion that is " It Stares Back" is more single minded in it's feral attack. The forty second of "Ready the Vessel" still manages to work better than expected in that time. "Neverending Ever Ending" sounds like a continuation or the previous  song. It might have wored better if the two had been combined.

There is a weird almost blues like tone to "Yarneep" . There is a more traditional punk tone to "Adrift Taking Water" . The drumming and the guitar playing are both really well done, and work in tandem. In under two minute they work in enough plot twists to keep me happy here. I am not as impressed with the last song which tends to be alright just upholding the status quo when that has not been the mission statement up to this point. I will give this album a 9, these guys are great at what they do and it's a fun listen. If you like emo- violence these are your guys.