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Combining dual poisons of Bay Area thrash riffing and hardcore bluntness, Holland’s on-and-off-again architects of, erm, hate, manage to provide a well and good listening experience of four songs in fourteen-plus minutes. On the metal front, both riff and vocal delivery owe more than their fair share to Slayer, with the latter being especially Araya-like. The hardcore influence owes to the vitriolic likes of Terror, No Innocent Victim, All Out War (the latter a Slayer-influenced lot themselves, mind you) and perhaps the band’s neighboring H8000 [West Flanders, Belgium's hardcore] scene as well. Gangstyle shouts do their thing, breakdowns are kept to a thankful minimum and Paul Speckmann from Master guests all over (how the hell did that happen?). “Sad Things in Life,” in particular, hits any number of excellent tempos and moods while circulating and returning to an awesome lead riff. With that said, however, it’s a bit of a tall order to be emotionally invested in a band that forms in 1995, splits for ten years, then reunites and commits four songs to wax, only to break up again, and these lads have no one to blame but themselves. Stick around, play some shows, work out yer differences, then we’ll talk again. I’ll adjust my review’s word count accordingly.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Pure Hate |
| 2. Bloodstains On My Fists |
| 3. Sad Things In Life |
| 4. ‘Till Death Do Us Part |
: 14:17
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