Labels: Thorp
Review by: Tom Hughes
Incredibly cheesy but kinda highly effective supermelodic upwardly-mobile backpack-metalcore split. “Two of the hottest hardcore prospects in the world” (eeuw) provide lightning-fingered semi-techy melodic HC with big straining chords and widdling by the facking truckload. Pushes a few buttons. Definitely some serious non-originality going on though: Deluge (from Holland, about whom it is claimed by the label that one of their MP3s was downloaded “tens of thousands” of times… um… really??) give us a less heavy Converge meets Building-era Sensefield; FDLS (USA) have the edge in the fretwank fingerblur stakes but then stray elsewhere into piss-dull and very hackneyed Hot Water Music anthemising. I’m making this sound well shit aren’t I? Yes? Good. Although I think I’m ragging on the style more than the content, it’s a total genre record and maybe not so bad in that context. How fucking patronising was that, sorry.