Labels: Towering Sound
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Bursting onto an increasingly stagnant and apathetic screamo scene, Towers are a new band that don’t actually seem inspired by Burning Witch as their name may suggest, but are bringing something fresh to the table all the same. Their first vinyl release actually very skilfully and organically mashes up some of the best musical genres around to produce a ragingly vicious metally, hardcore, sludge, thrash, screamy, noise-punk amalgam that is pretty much fast in the main, but without so much of the insubstantiality that so much of the associated music thrives on. This has real weight to it, something much more than the sum of its parts, creating a real ominous, cathartic edge to it. A fine way to go about starting.