GHOSTLIMB’s Confluence is the second chapter of the trilogy that has been started with Infrastructure in 2011. And of course GHOSTLIMB deliver a surpassing Hardcore record again. Twelve tracks filled with everything you love about them: the anger, the emotions, the fury, the desperately surging guitars, the fuming vocals, bits of blast-beats here and there – in a word, everything that makes a good, modern Hardcore record that’s not getting into a watered-down or, hell forbid, metalcore’ish direction.
GHOSTLIMB create this pugnacious, often melancholic mood without using strained symbolisms like so many bands do while trying to create a dark atmosphere. You can hear in every note played and every word screamed that all this emotion comes straight from the hearts of the people playing this music, and is not just an image that’s being made-up.
So if I’d have to rate this record I’d give it a 7 out of 10. Why just a 7? Well, basically because from my personal point of view, GHOSTLIMB do everything right there is to do, but really nothing more. There’s just nothing unexpected happening, I mean the Hot Water Music cover surprised me but it fits the overall package so well you probably wouldn’t recognize it as a cover if you don’t know HWM. Don’t get me wrong – I really enjoy listening to Confluence, but it’s not that I feel the need to listen to it 24/7, two month in a row. And besides I’m quite saturated with Hardcore like this, I mean there countless “neo-Crust” bands playing similar music – more often than not the results aren’t as convincing like in GHOSTLIMB’s case of course.
But that (super subjective & super bitchy) demur shouldn’t keep you from buying this record if you like your Hardcore truly emotional, fast and angry. You won’t go wrong with GHOSTLIMB, that’s for sure. Confluence will be released on July 10th, you can pre-order it from Vitriol Records.
Brooklyn Vegan is streaming four songs of Confluence:
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