If anyone with a fat wallet is reading this, hit me back let me know if you are down to go halfs on a record label. I might be dreaming, but their are so many rad bands that I would love to sign…one them is from Grand Rapids, MI, called DAMAGES. Unholy fuck, these humans are sick, 1000-year-old decaying flesh! On their new four song EP, Unlucky love in Lonesome Twenty-Something Hell, they totally destroy sound in a gnarly rad way! I’m really impressed by this band, they create the chaotic hardcore that gets my bones rattling with blackened joy. DAMAGES had me hooked in the first two seconds of listening to this EP; there is just no way to avoid the force that this band commands. For instance, when you hear their tune “Beauty Was Not Meant For Me,” the drums alone will crack your skull in all of the right places, then this super rad breakdown will have you saying, shit, this band is killer. What DAMAGES does really well is create a vibe of tension in all of their songs that pushes everything else along at the right pace. These dudes break it down to the nitty gritty when it comes to the matters of the heart, which is something we all can relate to. The vocalist of DAMAGES hits it with every fucking caustic syllable he spits – it’s not hard to tell that he means what he is singing about! No matter how fast their tunes get, they never leave out huge doses of mayhem filled melody. The riffs on this EP sound like they were dipped in acid which makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. So this is what I have learned from listening to this EP: there is not one bad song on here & I would be into seeing them live because I know they would bring the pain. Damn, when I went to Grand Rapids I did not know that they had such an epic hardcore scene…stay tuned, we will be reviewing more bands from this area in the near future, that’s for sure!
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