Human Furnace and his men did it again: they came out with another relentless record to preach the masses a perfect example of merging Cleveland Hardcore and Thrash Metal to bring hate, pain and utter brutality among human decadence. Scars is the newest fraction in a long row of records of which every single one sticks true the path Ringworm took 20 years ago. Every Ringworm record presents variations of metallic Hardcore, the newer ones tending more towards Thrash, but always being close knit to their roots. And Scars is no exception to this.
Pummeling drums, Slayer riffs en masse, raging solos and Human Furnace’ super pissed of vocals leave no doubt: Ringworm will not back down. No wild experiments, no electronic influences or anything alike. Ringworm have always been sticking to their formular and due to this there is barely any band that would be able to keep up with them in this style of metallic Hardcore. I remember when we played with Ringworm and Human Furnace wouldn’t get tired on stage to say that “it’s ok to like Metal”. Of all bands somehow mixing Metal and Hardcore without being what’s called Metalcore or Deathcore or similar fuck, Ringworm can look back on the longest continuity, experience and shows the greatest songwriting skills.
Corresponding to this, the production of Scars is pretty old school. Of course it’s brutal and harsh, but there are no high-gain Triple Rectifier or trendy “Entombedcore” Boss-HM2 sounds to be heard. Just a bunch of nasty old Marshalls. Well, at least that’s what I think, I might be wrong. But it’s undeniable that Scars is really far away from sounding modern or metallic in a “we spent 70 000 $ on recording”-way. And I think that’s just amazing, it kind of bridges the gap to Ringworm‘s first record, The Promise, which has a similar sound and even songwriting approach.
If you liked Ringworm before, Scars won’t disappoint you, and everyone who needs to get into them could do so with this record quite fine. Imagine a world without Ringworm – absolutely horrible!
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