Massacre\/Sound Pollution<\/p>\n
German metalcore veterans HATE SQUAD release their sixth album in 18 years. The band continues to mix thrash and death with hardcore, in various doses. Since their formation they have played estivals like the Dynamo, With Full Force etc, sharing the stage with bands like DEATH, KREATOR, MACHINE HEAD, and VENOM, to name but a few. They have also been voted best newcomer 1995 by TV channel Viva, ahead of both FEAR FACTORY and KORN, and been on heavy rotation on both Headbanger\u00b4s Ball and Metalla. Enough superlatives for now, how do they sound?<\/p>\n
With the info sheet fresh in mind, the soft guitar notes of opening intro \u201cDeep Scars\u201d are a genuine surprise! The title track, on the other hand, is exactly what I was expecting, death with grooves, and even a bit more atmosphere thrown in at the end. The hardcore addition interspersed with thrash opens for ANTHRAX comparisons. There is actually a lot of Joey Belladonna & Co thrown in their better songs, e.g. \u201cKill\u201d and \u201cVicious Assault\u201d. When the amount of hardcore is too high things start going downhill, as in \u201cR3VOLUTIONI5T\u201d and \u201cLive and Learn\u201d. The voice of Burkhard Schmitt has its similarities to many thrash vocalists, but the use of voice effects are not my cup of tea. I short I\u00b4d say that HATESQUAD could earn easy points by being more faithful to their true sound. For a metalcore band they use a lot of instrumentals, three, and they add dimensions to them that they are not normally associated with. \u201cMisanthropic Soul\u201c is a cozy piece I could associate with almost any form of traditional metal, but not metalcore! All in all this lot has somewhat changed my appreciation of metalcore, even though I believe that groovy thrash with some death thrown in would be a more adequate description!<\/p>\n
Track List
\nDeep Scars
\nKatharsis
\nYour Rotten Life
\nThe One
\nHatebomb
\nA.P.A.B.
\nMisanthropic Soul
\nVicious Assault
\nOld Times…Good Times
\nKill
\nR3EVOLUTIONI5T
\nFace Your Demon
\nLive and Learn<\/p>\n
Bonus Tracks
\nTraitor Scum
\nEvery Second Counts (2011)
\nwww.massacre-records.com www.myspace.com\/hatesquad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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