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Honour & Blood [Blue/Red Vinyl]
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Honour & Blood [Blue/Red Vinyl]
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Honour & Blood [Blue/Red Vinyl]
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On this album,
strains to match
's critically lauded raunch, right down to aping its predecessor's blueprint: three songs on side one, four songs on side two. That's not to say the group's single-minded chugalug has gotten tamer:
shudders with a ferocity that would make
proud, but is also a ringer for the last album's
The first side remains a seamless display of what made
comers in the
sweepstakes: blunderbuss guitars, cymbal-soaked drums, and vocals that sound like they're being phoned in from the bottom of a gravel pit.
shone brightest on these lengthy ruminations about the horrors of war; it's hard to imagine how
could have stepped down a similar path without hearing these guys first. Side two is a more inconsistent exercise plagued by an insistence on riffing for its own sake. The gleeful dismantling of
's standard
is the standout -- if only because it's so unusual in this context -- while
and
pull off the old riotous majesty, but could stand some more well-rounded melodies.
is a solid outing that only suffers when stacked against its predecessor.
and riff-mad peers like
would succumb to an '80s-era Darwinian logic that stranded them at the altar -- while
sailed into poppier pastures and hit the jackpot. It's just like high school: The prevaricating prom kings got the cars and girls, while everyone else got to watch. ~ Ralph Heibutzki