New Hard New England: Part One
If there was ever any doubt, hardcore in the North East was back on the map in 2010. I was happy to enjoy some amazing regional delicacies this year, live and recorded. Ringing out this last year of the first decade of the 21st Century were two new demo tapes that have made me very excited for the Future of Hardcore. My next two posts will feature two, new New England bands with remarkably similar names that have shown a light onto the murky darkness of modern aggressive music. These bands play in different veins, but both offer dark and psychological meditations that reach out to the closed off hearts of small, angry people every where. Bless them for their service.
Artist: Host
Album: Demo CS
Release: 2010
Label: Self-Released
Tracklist:
1. 83 And 94
2. The Bridge
3. What We Already Know
4. -
5. This Trap
Host are a band that has been in the works for some time and have played live in various incarnations but were born completely only in the last half of this year. This demo is the genius brain-child of one New Hampshire Live Free or Die custodial worker. After months of uncertainty this recording finally came to fruition in the rear room of a boarding house in a small New Hampshire Live Free or Die city. The simplicity of this recording belies the incredible, mosh-inducing song-writing of this band.
The Host demo is five songs of intricate, slightly-metallic hardcore that conjures His Hero Is Gone but also Integrity in a revamp on what is now a familiar sound. Do not be fooled; Host is not a watery "T-beat" or Myspace crust band. This is brilliant, angry, scathing hardcore with all the rawness and intensity that could only be culled from frigid and dark nights spent in your mother's New Hampshire Live Free or Die home.
The guitar work here stands out as some of the best in modern aggressive music. Parts change on a dime and shift from blazing fast punk to ignorant heaviness. It has been some time since I have heard song-crafting this good. The vocals are distinct and powerful.
Track five, "This Trap," will make you want to cut yourself open on the altar of your own misery. Notable is the New Hampshire Live Free or Die-themed cassette art featuring various New Hampshire Live Free or Die state symbols.
Host are a band that has been in the works for some time and have played live in various incarnations but were born completely only in the last half of this year. This demo is the genius brain-child of one New Hampshire Live Free or Die custodial worker. After months of uncertainty this recording finally came to fruition in the rear room of a boarding house in a small New Hampshire Live Free or Die city. The simplicity of this recording belies the incredible, mosh-inducing song-writing of this band.
The Host demo is five songs of intricate, slightly-metallic hardcore that conjures His Hero Is Gone but also Integrity in a revamp on what is now a familiar sound. Do not be fooled; Host is not a watery "T-beat" or Myspace crust band. This is brilliant, angry, scathing hardcore with all the rawness and intensity that could only be culled from frigid and dark nights spent in your mother's New Hampshire Live Free or Die home.
The guitar work here stands out as some of the best in modern aggressive music. Parts change on a dime and shift from blazing fast punk to ignorant heaviness. It has been some time since I have heard song-crafting this good. The vocals are distinct and powerful.
Track five, "This Trap," will make you want to cut yourself open on the altar of your own misery. Notable is the New Hampshire Live Free or Die-themed cassette art featuring various New Hampshire Live Free or Die state symbols.
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-Colman
2 comments:
This stuff is sick!
This shit is legit!
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