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Fury Never Dies - Hellbound

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The Eternal wait is over – Eternal War drop their demo ‘Passage of the Fragile Mind’

If anyone has been reading since this blogs creation, they’ll remember that one of the first posts was a q and a about a new band Eternal War and their upcoming release, scheduled to be out before their next show on December the 6th 2014. Over a year since that q and a went up, the demo has finally landed. Changing everything from their line-up to the name of the release, Eternal War have been through trial and tribulation. Now, with the release of the 4 track ‘passage of the Fragile Mind’ the band have finally got something down to their name that sounds as visceral as the wait warranted it to be. From the beginning of the intro you feel warmth surge into you; the type of warmth you imagine Russell Crowe’s character in Gladiator felt when he wiped out the competition, the same warmth the Warriors probably felt during every scrap. Stillborn is nothing short of a pit anthem, with the intro discord fusing itself right to the back of your brain. The lyric and instrumentation flow goes together perfectly; haunting picture of the anger felt towards a father, accompanied with crushing breakdowns that wrap the whole symphony into a perfect metalcore package. Lines like ‘these memories stay with me, as i grow old// part of you inside of me till my blood runs cold’ show there’s almost something physical that’s gone into this writing, that comes across more in the performance than a generic sound would.

After you recover from that topper it just continues to keep you hooked. The instrumentation is so in sync with the change in tempos and speeds, displaying the talent of everyone involved. For a grassroots band, you almost expect it to be simplistic, but each song blows that assumption out of the water, from eye watering riffs to kit carnage, this band keeps the energy rolling over and over into each song.

Then Lust Blooms comes on. Intro’ing with ghc calls, you know this means business. Martin and Neevo rack another captivating and salivating riff into their catalogue, catching anyone’s attention who was left behind at the start. The lyrics continue to captivate, with lines like ‘but the rose garden still blooms with the rainclouds above’ actually making you look into what is happening behind this song and behind the words, something that is hard to do these days. The song just gets harder and harder, discords breaking down the end into a sheer chaos, the words ‘eternal war’ made out before the heaviness tapers off into nothing, leaving you in a catatonic state.The band proves again and again to master the metalcore challenge of being able to be heavy enough with melodies still prevalent, topped off with the angst and pain in the vocals, it stands out as a great performance and will be immortalised in Glasgow hardcore. The band triumph the stamp of being DIY and they show how its to be done for the those in their wake. Eternal War’s ‘Passage of the Fragile Mind’ is available from their bandcamp: http://eternalwarghc.bandcamp.com/ Eternal War’s next show will be supporting Idle Hands at Shadow Sound on the 12th of November.

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We just put up 2 new songs as an LP teaser, LP will be coming out at the end of the year.

War Charge - Hand of God

Bring down your justice, Smite those who have sinned, Let us feel the hand of God, Let us know you exist. We're all enslaved,forced into the everlasting rest, succumb to death, a new beginning, the inception of a life of convulsion. The path of evil leading to an infinite end, the seemingless journey that we call life. I'll fucking do it my own way, it's my own life to take, i'll keep the reaper at bay. Until the day we die, we contemplate our end. But when that day comes, face to face with death. You can't survive his touch, the highest form of pain. From one world to another, I have no faith.

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Backside Disaster - Hardcore Factsheet Issue Three (Part 1) Ross Wilson - TFN (RIP)/Cruel Minded HC Click here for PDF www.facebook.com/cruelmindedhc

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Out with a Bang: Frontline’s final EP: Conformity

Frontline have been part of the beating heart of Scottish hardcore for many years, putting out their first EP through TFN records in September 2012. Since then, they’ve contributed so much to the local scene in Glasgow, becoming a well-known name throughout the UK and Europe. Now, like so many before them, Frontline are hanging up the beatdowns for good, with their final two shows this summer. Their last chunk of material; a three track EP called conformity, comes out online at the end of this week, and the band were kind enough to let me listen to it early. The EP overall is a perfect farewell from the paramore of your pit life. The sound is Frontline through and through: Heavy, riffy, and filled with just enough beatdowns to keep you limber. The first track, ‘Fit to Conform’ feels angry and pissed off. Strung with dark riffs throughout from the ever talented guitars, Frank continues his legacy of hard vocals, expressing his distaste of current conformity in society. ‘ Shaped in an image, fit to conform, blinded by the filth, programmed to fear‘ is the tagline of this psuedo-title track, setting the tone for the rest of the EP as a no-hold-back rant about how society. Standard procedure.. Bite the Bullet comes after, and continues the pace, keeping the movement with catchy two-step beats, giving you about 40 seconds of a breather before powering into a breakdown, just enough time given to beat your nan into submission before picking the pace up. The song is physically different not to move to; wether its a headbang or a jig, as i listen to it now I feel my shoulders pumping to the beat, demonstrating the all-round mastery of instrumentation from the band. The song ends as though the mic has been dropped, leaving you breathless, snapping out of the animal you became for a split second and hungry for more. Just as heavy as it started, Isolate wraps up the EP. The riffs triumph in this track, strumming pure gold from start to finish, making the headbang come wether you fucking like it or not. As Frank and a feature from Revulsion’s own Andrew Wilson finish off the track, screaming ‘no masters, no leaders’, before delivering the Frontline special of a riffy beatdown, its hard to not feel a tear leave your eye as the last chord is played and the EP finishes. The feeling of closure enters you, knowing that the last thing this band did was write absolute machines of heavy hardcore tracks, together, like they always do. Frontline were one of the first bands to take a step out and give me a release early to review, and I owe it all to them. Ever since my review of Pure Justice, the confidence of my writing has only gone from strength to strength, and without the boys’ confidence boost in entrusting me in an early preview, I would have sacked this before it began. GHC now, GHC forever. RIP Frontline, 2011-2015 Frontline’s last two shows will be the Rucktion fest in London on the 4th of July and Merauder in Glasgow on the 5th. Catch them in the pit, one last time.