This German band is a metalcore band that leans more toward the hardcore side of the equation more often than not. They are in your face and heavy as fuck, but can still pull out some catchy riffs, and melody drifts through what they do like a Victory Records band from the 90s. You can hear how both Deftones and Slipknot have influenced them. "Tissue' certainly has aml\mple nu-metal influence, and this is fine. I don't feel this makes them any less hardcore. The death metal vocals that come in on "Leech" do, however, lean their sound more in the direction of metalcore. As death metal is less influenced by hardcore, where nu-metal came out of the hardcore scene.
"Code red" shows how entwined the genres of hardcore/metalcore and nu-metal are as it incorporates all the elements of those genres. "mire stomp" bounces with the more typical modern hardcore hybrid, as unless it's bands like Terror, most of these are pretty incestous as it is jsut not limited to what these guys are doing but the direction things seem to be heading in, even bands like Code Orange took a turn toward. By the time we get to 'shiver," things begin to run together, despite the darker elements being present, and it almost runs off a Korn-like riff.
The dense staccato attack of "the nothing" finds the down-tuned hammering pretty effective, but even with the bellowed singing and bits of atmosphere, the intensity level has been at 11 for the whole album, and it has collided into Slipknot-influenced breakdowns in a way that has been a constant throb, that dulls my ear drums this point.It does get mired in it's own groove at time but I am down with the energy it brings as it makes for a great album, I will give this a 9.
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