Stop Breathing-V

Track 1. So Now- Entering the frame of my thoughts, a delicious well crunching pair of guitars, that I must say quickly get interesting. The tight snapping drum beats are more than enough to keep you focused here quite well. Things pickup with this improved groove. The vocals have a unique style about them, a subtle rasp, but very much filled with passion. The word's are very clear but all I can really make out from the subject matter is that it's just all very straight forward lyrically, which adds up with the flow of the music just right. There's a fast paced excitement, an angst flavored adrenalin rush, though it feel's short lived.

Track 2. Don't Tell Me- A dark, dirty, and crude barrage of riffs tears this thing wide open. All life, is gone all that remains is a punch to the gut of aggression. These guitar riffs has a thickness to them that just will swipe the life from any living thing. The music has these short yet heavy bursts, with complete utter crunch. The vocals seemed almost like a forced rush of an alliance, which definitely contained a passion and well thought out melody that combined well with the track itself, another short lived piece, not bad.

Track 3. Breaking Ground- A counting off on the cymbals, begins things here. A simple yet fast explosion of crazy sizzling distortion comes at you like a tidal wave of sound. The song finally open's up, settling if just for a moment on a tasty groove. Loving the palm mute action here, there's almost a punk feel here, but with a metal attitude. It was a nice slice of music, just seemingly not enough to fully grasp. I just wish the track was longer, it get's started, flows well but seems to end too soon.

Track 4. By The Balls- A fine mess that we find ourselves in here to begin with. Dirty and distorted guitar riffs added with a dynamic yet powerful drum beat which drive forth a taste and creative groove, but at the same time there's a sense of chaotic matter here within the music. It's almost like a chicken running around with it's head cut off, but the scary thing is that chicken still knows just where the fuck it's going. The conveyed emotions within the vocals alone are extremely powerful, good vocal clarity. The vocal harmonies seem to blend in pretty well with the leads, I do wish they were a bit more differentiated from the leads though. The music ends on that same drawn out guitar hook, you think it's going somewhere cool, but your just left at the door waiting for nothing, though it's a decent guitar hook at that.

Track 5. Keep Gunning- Some heavy punk rock styling's here, loving this starting groove it's heavy, and a straight forward fuck you to anyone who stands in it's way. A very catchy feel. Digging that delicious bass line. It's a low of rumble that could kill a man. The music flows about with a tenacity filled stroke of genius. Killer lead solo, the same rhythm line bounces back around with hit's heavy hook of punk wonder. Things sort of end all at the same time, but well timed at that, great track.

Track 6. I Can't Stop- Your caught drowning immediately in a complete onslaught of riff's and outright ear fucking dynamic drum beats, that are ready to stretch the flesh from your ear drums. You feel thrown about randomly as you try to keep up with this crazy track, it kicks into a more insane overdrive when the lead solo takes over. Thing's begin to kick major ass when the vocal melodies change again. A very powerful track, wishing the song had more of a melodic structure at the beginning instead of just jumping into the crazy noise, though the noise is enjoyable.

Track 7. Ben Halen- The same song and different dance it would seem, but not so much the same. More of the flavor of ass kicking. It's a relentless force of rushing pressure, that crunches and grinds. It's a thorough creation of face melting metal at times, in other places it's got flares of straight up raw punk rock. All of course seemingly with a tendency for darkness and all out aggression. Decent track, yet very short lived it would seem. The vocalist has a quality about him that just screams mad man hell bent on destruction.

Track 8. No Escape- OK, a good change of pace, some a heavy melodic beginning, that's what I'm talking about. That's how a song should begin. The beat shines in not long after the melody is established. It does not take long for a sheer force of aggression to thunder forward to take the soundscape over. The music stops if just for a moment, but just to trick you, it begins with a impression of desperation again. There are some stop and go well timed moments. The music begins to change directions again, into more interesting and deliciously creative areas. It takes on a more deeper feel. The vocalist fucking owns this shit right here. Dammit, it was getting fucking awesome, and it just suddenly ends. I hate that, get's good and it leaves you wanting just a little more. It feels almost like the song never really quite finished what it had set out to do, though there is some very good material on this track.

Track 9. Sing Along- A tasty bass line opens this bitch a mile wide. A subtle yet tight drum beat brings along with it, a heavy fuzzing guitar with a bright distorted shock of metal. The riffs clarity in this album has been one thing that I have really liked. Very intelligent and catchy lyrical subject matter. There's some confusion in the music, when it stops, but then it just loses it's ever loving mind. This track is an insane melodic ride of thunder, just pure hell. Good though!

Track 10. Stay Blind- A sudden burst of well organized chaos begins this battle royal of pain. Your ears are instantly tossed into a random cave of musical wonder. There's a straight up raw dose of punk induced metal here. It seemingly never lets up, there are tiny moments where there's a breather here and there though. This music is quite fucking rabid, though with a slither of interesting and done just right. That mad guitar solo is sweet! The music ends on a kick ass cadence with the drums it would seem, again leaving you wanting more.

Track 11. More of the Same- Loving the riffs that open this thing up. Quite raw. There's some back and forth with the vocals. The theme of the music itself its a given for crazy antics, it seems quite ironic though, because the band itself has a very off the wall crazy sound, and what this song is about, seems just that. Love the direction change of the music, things seem to be lit on fire and headed towards hell with a mission. The intend to destroy everything in their path, with no way back. Great track that I wish was longer, though its good shit!

Track 12. Until We Die- This feels almost like a carbon copy of the previous track. But the song structure seems just a bit different. However it roll's back into a thorough drilling of crazy. This is definitely not the kind of music you'd want playing if you were to have your teeth drilled on. There's a completely insane flow of raw crushing plight here. It grabs you and takes you for it's ride to plunder kill and thrust it's sound upon anything that is within an ear's length. They are a mere wonder of heavy metal, punk induced curiosity. The album finally ends on some slow yet heavy rhythmic poundings, or so you think. There's some blank spots in the track, almost as if they wished to trick the listener. Your thrown right into what seems to be another track. There's the similar flavor this band brings with their fine tuned aggression, and steep sense of vocal passion. A very well articulated lead solo dances it's way through the mix with utter madness. Digging that heavy rhythm riff that seems to be on the way to ending this album. Thing's finally fade on that awesome groove, love that!

It's been an off the wall review to say the least. I've questioned some song structure, but some changes that were thrown around here and there made up for those questions. They are raw, seemingly random at times, but with a forth right kick to the face ready and waiting for anybody who dares to listen to this music. What did I not like? I wished the backing vocals would have been a bit different from the lead vocals, they seemed too much alike. I think the vocal melodies would have been a bit better if there was a bigger difference there. And maybe just a bit more of those bad ass solo's thrown in here and there, as well as that thumping bass. Other than that decent material! Some of the material was good, though very short lived as if the tracks just did not finish up what they intended to, that was something that stuck out like a sore thumb in my honest opinion. Rating 7/10

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