Label: Nervous Habit Records
Chicago’s Angry Gods, a new sludge/hardcore crossover band comprised of members of Harps Of Tartarus, Boiling Over and Scouts Honor, play impossibly deep, pummeling metal inflected hardcore full of jack-hammering double-kick drums, down-tuned guitars and guttural catharsis. In only two tracks and six minutes, Angry Gods somehow manage to craft something bordering on epic, rampaging through a whole slew of dynamic twists and turns, from the opening of “Greyed Delay” which feels like being punched repeatedly in the face in rapid succession, to ‘The Swell”s hypnotically repetitive martial outro, which feels like being trampled slowly by a herd of elephants. Admittedly, that’s not the greatest range of experiences, but trust me, in terms of sound as a representation of physical assault, Angry Gods run the whole range of ways to be beaten senseless.
These two songs take so many left turns in their negligible run time, but it never feels forced or unnatural. This EP feels so much longer than six minutes, and I mean that in a good way. There is enough creativity here to fill out an entire album but this band pack it all into two songs and makes sure there isn’t a single moment of wasted space. These two songs are exciting, moving, surprising and above all, brutal. The collapse and build up during the last two minutes of “The Swell” is truly fucking epic and one of the heaviest things you’ll hear for a while. The drums bash like they are literally the hammer of the gods and the bass is so deep you can actually hear the string fluttering from lack of tension, like the whole thing’s a second away from full collapse, and you will be too.
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