Hardcore Punk
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Impressions
Rarely do I run across punk music
through bandcamp that goes for harder edge than mall food court - and
you know the kind I mean, without being nearly mind numbingly hard to
sit through once, let alone enough times to soak in and review.
There's the opposite end of course that's simply thrashing noise
which is often equally unlistenable for a multitude of reasons. Along
comes Tempest (albeit through a third party and not my usual
wasfuersohr manner) and tears the head off of those two with sheer
musical virtuosity and unwavering ferocity. I am not normally fond of
hardcore, generally due to the vocals being screeches or attempts at
grizzly, guttural bellows, failing to capture my attention and
detract from the music itself. Somehow Passages is filled with
growled vocals I not only didn't hate, but felt melded with the music
quite well. Enjoyable even. Of course the vocals being somewhat lost
in the ruckus of the instruments might turn some off, but not me. As
for those instruments, technically sound guitars and skull crushing
floor rattling low end. The rhythm and lead guitars do
create one hell of a front-line assault together, with the drum and bass launching mortar fire to
back them up. “Death Rattle” exemplifies this with its ridiculous
tempo and short length (and “Hierarchy of Greed” is the follow up
knock-out to “Rattles”'s gut shot). Rather straight forward in
terms of composition, no noodling about with solos or dabbling in
different sounds (“Interlude” is, I suppose, but it's the damn
interlude, man, it doesn't count), nor are there fancy effects being
used to pad the tracks out. Thankfully none of that is necessary
here, as Tempest get to the point, and fire on all cylinders across
these 7 hard-hitting songs. Those looking for something heavy and pummeling should give Tempest's Passages a look.
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