Foreign Hands の新作 | ロキノンには騙されないぞ

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Foreign Hands
What's Left Unsaid

 

 

Distorted Sound 90点相当

 

 

 

Metalcore is so back right now. Not the arena rock with tech metal riffs that has so often tried to pass for it over the past decade or so, we’re talking proper Trustkill stuff here: raw, emotive, visceral and, you know, with some actual ‘core’ influences in there too. Delaware’s FOREIGN HANDS have already earned themselves a place among the very best proponents of the sound in recent years – probably somewhere in a top three shared with the likes of DYING WISH and CAULDRON – and they’re still only just getting round to releasing a full-length. What’s Left Unsaid arrives to considerable hype this Friday, not least thanks to the support of SharpTone Records, and it proves the quintet are deserving of every ounce of it.


The elephant in the room then: there is an intentional element of throwback here which means that What’s Left Unsaid cannot escape comparisons to bands that have gone before like POISON THE WELL and MISERY SIGNALS and 7 ANGELS 7 PLAGUES – those last two highlighted particularly by a ferocious penultimate track guest spot from Matthew Mixon who played in the latter and guested frequently for the former – and even a hint of CAVE IN in some of the carnival-esque chromatic guitar runs in the likes of Resetting The Senses and especially lead single God Under Fingernails. More important however is that no such comparisons distract or detract from this album’s quality; FOREIGN HANDS know their history, they know what makes for great metalcore and they are really bloody good at doing it themselves.

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