Enabler - All Hail the Void
Very impressive Hardcore with Grindcore tendencies and occasional melodic genius. It may surprise many a Metalhead that Enabler features drummer Andrew Hurley from Pop sensations Fall Out Boy (“…I’m goin’ down, down on a guy named Jim Brown / and brotha his fuckin’ dick’s swingin’ / I’ll be your number one with a bullet / I’m gonna take my cock out, stroke it and pull it…”), but Hardcore lifers won’t bat an eyelash as the Straight Edge anarcho-primitivist cut his teeth in many a Hardcore/Punk band before hitting it big. He provides an exceptional performance here, working well-timed Nasumesque blasts and unbridled double-bass fury into a traditional, fast Hardcore style (see “Save Yourself”). Elsewhere, big mid-paced riffs such as those found on “Speechless” and “Fuck Today” add a dynamic contrast to the frantic, Crust-like vibe that permeates throughout. Frenzied ragers like “The Heathens,” “False Profit,” and “Funeral Dirge” are sure to give Converge fans a healthy collective boner, while deeper cuts like the otherwise Slayer-worshipping title track, the melody-laced “True Love” and “Trust,” and the Doomy “They Live, We Sleep” hint at a despondent sensibility often elusive to bands of this ilk. Most tracks check in at the two to three-minute mark, making the subtle stylistic shifts all the more effective and palatable. Is it just me, or is Southern Lord slowly but surely turning into a Hardcore label? No complaints, guys. I’ll take the venomous ferocity and infectious bite of Black Breath and Enabler over bands that sound like radio static any day.
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OnlyInDeath said:
Fun fact-
For a while there were 2 different bands going by this name in Wisconsin, and each had a member of WI grindcore kings CopEater
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