Guilty Pleasures - 3/5
Hardcore is certainly a guilty pleasure – think back to the times when Your Demise actually had a good vocalist and before it reached its way into the charts in a more poppy sound. Turkish hardcore band Across the Wall opt for the more aggressive style in ‘Broken Nose’ of rough sounding guitars, crashing drums and sinister vocals that are unfortunately let down by a rather dry production.
This is a track with enough groove to move a herd of camels certainly and one which certainly will get you punched in the face at a gig (I have plenty of experience in that field), and once getting into the swing of such a powerful track you start to enjoy it, but the dry production ruins it, along with a mediocre and conventional breakdown that lacks any form of originality, with vocalist Cem pig squealing and growling in a rather annoying fashion with the drummer Barış trying to drag the track up with some superb double bass skills, to no avail.
Don’t get the wrong end of the stick here, the ideas on this track are ones to watch out for yet they aren’t tied together in a cohesive fashion, with what the band builds around a signature sound to demolishing it into a breakdown that can be copied by many bands worldwide along with a dry production. So once they get someone a bit better in the production office and transfer the ideas to the breakdowns then this is going to be one band to stand out in time to come.
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This is a track with enough groove to move a herd of camels certainly and one which certainly will get you punched in the face at a gig (I have plenty of experience in that field), and once getting into the swing of such a powerful track you start to enjoy it, but the dry production ruins it, along with a mediocre and conventional breakdown that lacks any form of originality, with vocalist Cem pig squealing and growling in a rather annoying fashion with the drummer Barış trying to drag the track up with some superb double bass skills, to no avail.
Don’t get the wrong end of the stick here, the ideas on this track are ones to watch out for yet they aren’t tied together in a cohesive fashion, with what the band builds around a signature sound to demolishing it into a breakdown that can be copied by many bands worldwide along with a dry production. So once they get someone a bit better in the production office and transfer the ideas to the breakdowns then this is going to be one band to stand out in time to come.
http://www.facebook.com/A.T.W.Istanbul