Labels: Detournement
Review by: Damien Mills
So, defunct welsh metalcore on this one, I think (i’ve lost the label gubbins) featuring current members of Night And The City Of Broken Promises and (gulp) Funeral For A Friend – originally starting out in a time when everyone played this sort of thing and metal was more acceptable at ‘proper’ hc shows ( see Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon, Canaan, etc…).
As for the record itself, it’s not just the band’s name that sounds quite a lot like (old) This Day Forward, as the music has a similar sort of tense, twisty riffing style going on, and although they can’t quite match TDF’s ‘argh-my-face-is-dying’ vocals they have a good go. Otherwise it has much more obvious break downs and stuff, but I guess they were pretty young.
That however brings me to the cd portion of this release, which is, I think, a complete discography of everything they recorded, which mixes the sublime with the ridiculous, featuring as it does, some decent metal moments and some quite painful melodic ones, as was the style at the time though I suppose. In general though, if you can get around the association with chinless Jesus rock shitehawks FFAF then this is a nice little document of the South Wales scene once upon a time, probably of most relevance to people who lived round there though…