It’s tough to deny the gravity that the past roster of ZOZOBRA lays claim to. Founded in 2006 by Caleb Scofield of Cave In and Old Man Gloom and having featured members from Isis, The Hope Conspiracy, United Nations and pretty much every other goddamn member of Cave In. So when the news hits that next month they’ll be dropping Savage Masters their first album in five years… you get excited.
This incarnation of the band Adam McGrath (Cave In, Clouds, Bodega Girls) – guitar, vocals
JR Connors (Cave In) – drums (2012-present).It also melts your face, rips your head off and shits down your throat while cackling like a hyena. Their uniquely volatile mixture of crusty, grinding, blood spitting, apocalypse hardcore takes the next 13 minutes and 40 seconds and turns them into the most satisfying glimpse of chaos strewn hell that I have so far bared witness to in 2013.
All 6 tracks are equal parts menacing and abrasive, but there’s something else there, beneath the initial veneer of pissed off aggression. Something that makes you keep reaching to turn the volume up, making it a race to see which blows first, your speakers or your eardrums. It’s not something I can readily put my finger on, but it’s definitely the thing that separates them from the plethora of other bands trying to play this style of music and into the upper echelons, the only thing I can really say is that this album feels truly ominous in all it’s rage!
Savage Masters will be available April 2nd via Brutal Panda Records…Pre-Order HERE!
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