The Gamut - Episode 95 playlist!!!

No giveaways this evening, just loads of great music, so tune in tonight via http://www.untombed.com at 9 PM EST for all the great tunes!

Tonight's playlist!!!
Becoming the Archetype - Path of the Beam (Progressive Death Metal)
Hemotheory - Lift (Groove Metal)
Leper - In Love With the Fall (Gothic Rock)
Vision - Mountain In the Sky (Progressive Rock)
Hawthorn - Master of Lies (Symphonic Black Metal)
Crumbacher - Crashlanded (In Another Time Zone) (80s Rock/Pop)
Ransom - Break Into Darkness (Female-fronted Hard Rock)
Arch of Thorns - The Bright Morning Star (Black Metal)
Dana Angle - The Time Is Now (Rock/Contemporary)
Onward to Olympus - The War Within Us (Metalcore)
Undercover - The Fight For Love (80s Rock)
Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos (Power Metal)
Fire Born - Hell Bent (Heavy Modern Rock)
Callisto - Rule the Blood (Post-Metal)
Crosswire - This Richman (Hard Rock)
Bride - Hot Down South Tonight (Hard Rock/Metal)
Bedeiah - Of the Lord (Black Metal)
Lordchain - Hiding Place (Groove Metal)
Crystavox - Stand (Metal/Hard Rock)
A Hero Remains - Attempt #2 (Metalcore)
Extultet - I Soldati della Croce (Folk/Black Metal)
Men As Trees Walking - Seal Upon My Heart (Alternative/Pop)
Harvest Bloom - Natural Compulsion (Female-fronted Hard Rock)
A Hill To Die Upon - The Chant of Mighty Offspring (Black Metal)
Hope of Glory - Back In the Woods (Jesus Music)
Rick Cua - Can't Stand Too Tall (80s Rock)
Last Battle - Choose Life (Black Metal)
Sion - To Take Pleasure In Freedom (Metalcore)
Kekal - Tabula Rasa (Avant Garde Post-Metal)
Under the Sun - Stride (Doom Metal)
Hguols - Epitome of Threnodies Abided (Hlodyn)
Lanny Cordola - Livin' In Spin (Singer/Songwriter)
Eisley - The Valley (Female-fronted Indie Rock)
Emery - The Cheval Glass (Post-Hardcore)
Nomad Son - Can't Turn the Tide (Doom Metal)
Holy Blood - Shining Sun (Folk/Black Metal)
Benevolence - Retribution (Death Metal)
Death Poems - Apocalyptic Visions (Black Metal)

Check out the re-designed Untombed website @ www.untombed.com !  You can tune in easily via the web-based player on the front page, link to the stream via your regular audio player, read album reviews, get music news, and link up to other great resources, including the newly redesigned Divine Metal Distro site, your one-stop source for all things Christian rock and metal!  Don't forget, station chat has moved to Untombed.com at the bottom of the site, so make sure you sign up or use a Facebook or Twitter account to sign in and chat w/ me and other listeners during the show!

Alternate links to listen to the stream in a separate player (Winamp recommended, though Real Player, VLC, iTunes and others work as well):
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Also our stream can now be heard on Nintendo Wii! If you have a Wii, here is what you do:

1.go on the net via your Wii console
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"The Gamut" - tonight's playlist!!!

No giveaways this evening, just loads of great music, so tune in tonight via http://www.untombed.com at 9 PM EST for all the great tunes!

Tonight's playlist!!!
Neocracy - Here's To the Reckoning (Extreme Metal)
Random Eyes - Deep Waters (Power Metal)
Neizbezhnost' - Would It Be Reasonable (Melodic Black Metal)
Pastor Brad - Cold Blooded Killer (Heavy Metal)
Lordian Guard - Behold a Pale Horse (Female-fronted Gothic Metal)
xDeathstarx - Burn Everything (Metalcore)
The Hoax - Tearing Me Down (Hardcore Punk)
Vector - Sometimes (New Wave/Rock)
In the Midst Of Lions - The Machine (Deathcore)
Dogwood - Never Die (Punk Rock)
Sacred Warrior - Uncontrolled (Classic Metal)
Dying Blaze - Deicide (Black Metal)
Daniel Amos - Losers and Winners (Jesus Music)
Undercover - All That I Am (Alternative Rock)
Joy Electric - Keep Him In Your Thoughts (Synthpop)
Dysfunctional Rotout - Autopsy: Insanity (Grindcore)
Starflyer 59 - Droned (Shoegazer/Alternative)
Project 86 - Rebuttal (Modern Heavy Rock)
Angel 7 - New Sky Upon New Lands (Black/Power Metal Hybrid)
DeGarmo & Key - Charge of the Light Brigade (80s Rock)
Hit the Deck - Heads, You Lose (Hardcore Punk)
Magdalen - Baby Insane (Hard Rock)
Paramaecium - Untombed (Doom/Death Metal)
Morella's Forest - Sand and the Sea (Female-fronted Alternative Rock)
Discern - Behold the Heretic (Death Metal)
One-21 - Ghetto Blaster (Punk Rock)
Love Coma - Empty (Alternative Rock)
Hope For the Dying - Our Fallen Comrades (Progressive Extreme Metal)
SinBreed - Newborn Tomorrow (Power Metal)
Once Nothing - Gunfire Is the Sound Of Freedom (Metalcore)
King James - Swing Of the Street (Metal)
ManufraQture - Ultraviolent (Industrial)
Grave Robber - Burn Witch, Burn (Horror Punk)
EDL - Jetstream (Rapcore/Heavy Rock)
Bloodgood - Anguish and Pain (Classic Metal)
Extol - Inferno (Death/Black Metal)
InnerWish - Burning Desires (Power Metal)
Betrayal - Retalitory Strike (Thrash Metal
Mortal - Mission (Techno Rock)
Sacrament - Absence of Fear (Thrash Metal)
Saving Grace - Pukelips (Metalcore)

Check out the re-designed Untombed website @ www.untombed.com !  You can tune in easily via the web-based player on the front page, link to the stream via your regular audio player, read album reviews, get music news, and link up to other great resources, including the newly redesigned Divine Metal Distro site, your one-stop source for all things Christian rock and metal!  Don't forget, station chat has moved to Untombed.com at the bottom of the site, so make sure you sign up or use a Facebook or Twitter account to sign in and chat w/ me and other listeners during the show!

Alternate links to listen to the stream in a separate player (Winamp recommended, though Real Player, VLC, iTunes and others work as well):
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http://radio.fuhell.com:8000/listen.pls

Here's the link for Windows Media Player:
http://207.192.71.70:8000

Also our stream can now be heard on Nintendo Wii! If you have a Wii, here is what you do:

1.go on the net via your Wii console
2. type "www.Wiihear.com" into your browser address box
3. type "207.192.71.70:8000" into the Search box
4. Click the play arrow

It can take 5-10 seconds to load up & buffer, so please be patient when using this feature :)

You can also stream the station via xyzmp3.com on your PSP, PS3, Wii, iPhone, or even your TiVo!  Plus you can stream the show via your Windows Mobile phone with the free GSPlayer application!  Listen in from your Android device via the "A Online Radio" or StreamFurious applications, as well as the new beta version of Winamp for the Android platform!

"The Gamut" - tonight's playlist + 3 CD Giveaways!!!

Tonight is a great night for The Gamut because CD giveaways return!  Yes, you read that right - I'll be giving a way 3 CDs in the show tonight!  First, the latest release by black metal masters Elgibbor, "Soterion Apollumi Hamartia"!  Then I've got some crushing technical deathcore with I Built the Cross' "Bridging the Gap Between Heart and Mind" release!  We also have the Mexican black metal Hortor's latest release "Ancient Satanic Rituals Are Crushed Into Dust" to give away too!  So tune in tonight via http://www.untombed.com at 9 PM EST for your chance to win!

Tonight's playlist!!!

Wrench in the Works - Faith is a Virus (Noisy Metalcore)
Bride - Human Race (Alternative/Hard Rock)
Harmony - Kingdom (Melodic Power Metal)
Elder - Down the Stairs (Grunge/Rock)
Galactic Cowboys - Young Man's Dream (Progressive Metal)
Katamari Deathroll - Twin Bed Nation (Electro-Hardcore/Dance Punk)
Sotahuuto - Kaillo (Modern Extreme Metal)
Morella's Forest - Gentle Go the Hours (Female-fronted Alternative Rock)
Ultimatum - Heart of Metal (Thrash Metal)
Elgibbor - A New Warrior King (Black Metal) - CD Giveaway!!!
LSU - Let Me Out (Alternative Rock)
Mortificatino - Priests of the Underground (Thrash/Power Metal)
Resurrection Band - American Dream (Classic Rock)
Overcome - House of Cards (Hardcore)
I Built the Cross - Hatred From the Religions (Technical Deathcore) - CD Giveaway!!!
Majestic Vanguard - Don't to be an Actor (Melodic Power Metal)
Dance House Children - Keepsake Melody (Synthpop)
The W's - 101 (Ska)
The Culprits - Misery (Hardcore Punk)
Honey - Missing You (Alternative/Indie Pop)
Hortor - Ancient Satanic Rituals Are Crushed In Dust (Black Metal) - CD Giveaway!!!
Exhumed Alive - The Nature of Maggots (E-Grind)
Regime - Borderline (Commercial Metal)
POD - Run (Rapcore)
Soul Shock Remedy - Dreamz (Alternative Rock)
Metanoia - Offensive (Death Metal)
Believer - Stress (Technical Thrash Metal)
HB - It Is Time (Female-fronted Melodic Metal)
ForChristSake - O (Thrash/Death Metal)
Common Yet Forbidden - Violence (Thrashcore)
Driver Eight - Strange (Alternative Rock)
Extol - Emancipation (Technical Thrash Metal)
Demon Hunter - Relentless Intolerance (Melodic Metalcore)
Undecover - He Takes Care Of Me (Pop Punk)
Darkness Before Dawn - Undeserved Hatred (Melodic Death Metal)
the Human Flight Committee - Wolves In Cheap Clothing (Indie Rock)
Towne Cryer - Political Man (Female-fronted Metal)
Saint - Phantom of the Galaxy (Classic Metal)
Crystavox - Break Down the Wall (Hard Rock/Metal)
Ruby Joe - Get It Right (Rockabilly)
Stryper - Keep the Fire Burning (Commercial Metal)
Consecrator - Free From Death (Thrash Metal)
Thy Will Be Done - Bloodwitness (Metalcore)

Check out the re-designed Untombed website @ www.untombed.com !  You can tune in easily via the web-based player on the front page, link to the stream via your regular audio player, read album reviews, get music news, and link up to other great resources, including the newly redesigned Divine Metal Distro site, your one-stop source for all things Christian rock and metal!  Don't forget, station chat has moved to Untombed.com at the bottom of the site, so make sure you sign up or use a Facebook or Twitter account to sign in and chat w/ me and other listeners during the show!

Alternate links to listen to the stream in a separate player (Winamp recommended, though Real Player, VLC, iTunes and others work as well):
http://207.192.71.70:8000/listen.pls
http://radio.fuhell.com:8000/listen.pls

Here's the link for Windows Media Player:
http://207.192.71.70:8000

Also our stream can now be heard on Nintendo Wii! If you have a Wii, here is what you do:

1.go on the net via your Wii console
2. type "www.Wiihear.com" into your browser address box
3. type "207.192.71.70:8000" into the Search box
4. Click the play arrow

It can take 5-10 seconds to load up & buffer, so please be patient when using this feature :)

You can also stream the station via xyzmp3.com on your PSP, PS3, Wii, iPhone, or even your TiVo!  Plus you can stream the show via your Windows Mobile phone with the free GSPlayer application!  Listen in from your Android device via the "A Online Radio" or StreamFurious applications, as well as the new beta version of Winamp for the Android platform!

The Gamut - "Title Track Bonanza" playlist!!!

Tonight marks the return of the theme show!  That's right, after having been so busy with work and not having had time to devise clever themes to temp you all with, I've finally come back to a theme I've been meaning to explore for a while but just haven't taken the time - "Title Track Bonanza"!  Every song in the show tonight is a title track to the album it comes from.  Some of these are iconic tunes that define the artists who played them, some are really high quality, and some are just interesting and different.  All in all, it's going to be a killer night of music, so tune in tonight at 9 PM EST via http://www.untombed.com and check it out!

Tonight's playlist!!!

Krig - Narcissistic Mechanism (Death Metal)
Bloodgood - Out of the Darkness (Classic Metal)
Bathtub Mary - Make Believe (Female-fronted Indie Pop)
Jet Circus - Step On It (Metal/Hard Rock)
Inevitable End - The Severed Inception (Technical Death Metal)
I, Sleepwalker - Snake River (Souther Post-Hardcore)
Harmony - The Aftermath (Melodic Power Metal)
Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy (Technical Death Metal)
Glad - Who Do You Love (80s Rock)
Frost Like Ashes - Born to Pieces (Black Metal)
In Grief - Deserted Soul (Progressive Death Metal)
Joy Electric - The Otherly Opus (Synthpop)
Barnabas - Feel the Fire (Female-fronted Classic Metal)
Seventh Avenue - Terium (Power Metal)
Inhale Exhale - The Lost, The Sick, The Sacred (Melodic Metalcore)
Jetenderpaul - Don't Look Down (Indie Pop)
Impending Doom - There Will Be Violence (Deathcore)
Aleixa - Disfigured (Female-fronted Techno Rock)
Guardian - Fire and Love (Hard Rock/Commercial Metal)
Trytan - Sylentiger (Classic Metal)
Ultimatum - Puppet of Destruction (Thrash Metal)
Spirit's Breeze - None Should Perish (Female-fronted Death Metal)
Menahem - Angels and Shadows (Progressive Metal)
Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth (Death Metal)
The Scurvies - Nightprowler (Punk)
The Prayer Chain - Mercury (Alternative)
Step Cousin - The Evolution Religion (Thrash/Groove Metal)
Consider the Thief - Signs and Wonders (Indie Pop/Rock)
Blood Drift - Thrusting Plagues (Black/Death Metal)
Daniel Amos - Alarma! (New Wave/Rock)
Detritus - If But For One (Progressive Thrash Metal)
Eulogium - The Transcendence of Hope (Black Metal)
Family Force 5 - Dance or Die (Rock/Electronic)
Kekal - The Painful Experience (Avant-Garde Extreme Metal)
Leviticus - I Shall Conquer (Classic Metal)
Letter 7 - Follow the Light (Metal)
The Right Wing Conspiracy - Separation of God and State (Grindcore)
War of Ages - Eternal (Metalcore)
With Blood Comes Cleansing - Golgotha (Deathcore)
Divinefire - Hero (Power Metal)
Deliverance - Weapons Of Our Warfare (Thrash Metal)
Darkness Before Dawn - Kings To You (Melodic Death Metal)

Check out the re-designed Untombed website @ www.untombed.com !  You can tune in easily via the web-based player on the front page, link to the stream via your regular audio player, read album reviews, get music news, and link up to other great resources, including the newly redesigned Divine Metal Distro site, your one-stop source for all things Christian rock and metal!  Don't forget, station chat has moved to Untombed.com at the bottom of the site, so make sure you sign up or use a Facebook or Twitter account to sign in and chat w/ me and other listeners during the show!

Alternate links to listen to the stream in a separate player (Winamp recommended, though Real Player, VLC, iTunes and others work as well):
http://207.192.71.70:8000/listen.pls
http://radio.fuhell.com:8000/listen.pls

Here's the link for Windows Media Player:
http://207.192.71.70:8000

Also our stream can now be heard on Nintendo Wii! If you have a Wii, here is what you do:

1.go on the net via your Wii console
2. type "www.Wiihear.com" into your browser address box
3. type "207.192.71.70:8000 into the Search box
4. Click the play arrow

It can take 5-10 seconds to load up & buffer, so please be patient when using this feature :)

You can also stream the station via xyzmp3.com on your PSP, PS3, Wii, iPhone, or even your TiVo!  Plus you can stream the show via your Windows Mobile phone with the free GSPlayer application!  Listen in from your Android device via the "A Online Radio" or StreamFurious applications, as well as the new beta version of Winamp for the Android platform!

"The Gamut" is back tonight!!!

The Gamut is in full swing again after a break for some business travel and family stuff! Lots of new stuff going on with Untombed.com as the forum and chat moves there - you can sign in with your Facebook or Twitter account to chat, or sign up for an "Envolve" account for the site, but go check it out! Also check out the new forum at Untombed.com! As always, lots of great tunes in the show, so tune in tonight at 9 PM EST and check it out!

Tonight's playlist!!!

Renascent - Wisdom Calls (Melodic Death Metal)
Sweet Comfort Band - I Need Your Love Again (Classic Rock)
Cast a Fire - Black Stage (Gothic Rock/Metal)
Jetenderpaul - When Will We Dance In Golden Gowns (Indie Pop)
Rob Rock - Calling Angels (Melodic Power Metal)
Joy Electric - Song For All Time (Synthpop)
ForChristSake - O (Black/Death Metal)
Majestic Vanguard - The Great Eternity (Melodic Power Metal)
Spy Glass Blue - Me Mine (Gothic Rock)
Long Suffering - Generational Deliverance (Grindcore)
Lordchain - Unpredictable (Hard Rock/Groove Metal)
Detritus - Eviction (Thrash Metal)
Narcissus - Pride/Politics (Post-Hardcore)
SorrowStorm - The Arduous Warpath (Black Metal)
The Prayer Chain - Big Wheel (Grunge/Alternative)
Crux - Circle (Punk)
L.O.U.D. - I Owe You Praise (Hard Rock)
Corpse - Deceived (Death Metal)
Fireflight - Waiting (Female-fronted Modern Heavy Rock)
Starflyer 59 - Canary Row (Shoegazer/Alternative)
The Blamed - Forever (Hardcore)
Kosmos Express - In My Face (Alternative Rock)
Mad At The World - If You Listen (Hard Rock/Alternative)
Danielson Famile - Thanx to Noah (Indie Pop)
Stand Your Ground - Coup de Main (Melodic Hardcore)
Five Star Eighty - Understanding (Pop-Punk)
Seventh Angel - Exordium (Doom/Thrash Metal)
Eternal Mystery - Is Abuse a Joke (Grindcore)
Fearscape - Scent of Divine Blood (Melodic Black Metal)
Deliverance - No Love (Thrash Metal)
Menahem - New Chance (Progressive Metal)
Paramaecium - Haemorrhage of Hatred (Doom/Death Metal)
Dark Lay Still - Bring Them the Morning Star (Melodic Black Metal)
With Blood Comes Cleansing - Bring Out Your Dead (Deathcore)
Saint - Crying In the Night (Classic Metal)
X-Propagation - Conflict (Instrual)
Morella's Forest - Hang Out (Female-fronted Alternative/Shoegazer)
Recon - Dreams (Metal)
Illuminandi - The Promise (Gothic Metal)
Undercover - Darkest Hour (80s Rock) - Intense Millennium remaster debut!
Bridgeshadows - Let This Begin (Techno-Rock/Industrial)
Taketh - Consequence (Of Abusing Human Weakness) (Melodic Death Metal)

Check out the re-designed Untombed website @ www.untombed.com ! You can tune in easily via the web-based player on the front page, link to the stream via your regular audio player, read album reviews, get music news, and link up to other great resources, including the newly redesigned Divine Metal Distro site, your one-stop source for all things Christian rock and metal! Don't forget, station chat has moved to Untombed.com at the bottom of the site, so make sure you sign up or use a Facebook or Twitter account to sign in and chat w/ me and other listeners during the show!

Alternate links to listen to the stream in a separate player (Winamp recommended, though Real Player, VLC, iTunes and others work as well):
http://207.192.71.70:8000/listen.pls
http://radio.fuhell.com:8000/listen.pls

Here's the link for Windows Media Player:
http://207.192.71.70:8000

Also our stream can now be heard on Nintendo Wii! If you have a Wii, here is what you do:

1.go on the net via your Wii console
2. type "www.Wiihear.com" into your browser address box
3. type "207.192.71.70:8000" into the Search box
4. Click the play arrow

It can take 5-10 seconds to load up & buffer, so please be patient when using this feature :)

You can also stream the station via xyzmp3.com on your PSP, PS3, Wii, iPhone, or even your TiVo! Plus you can stream the show via your Windows Mobile phone with the free GSPlayer application! Listen in from your Android device via the "A Online Radio" or StreamFurious applications, as well as the new beta version of Winamp for the Android platform!

The Gamut tomorrow night is all-request!

This week's Gamut episode marks a Gamut 1st - the show will be "All Request"! Yes, you, the listeners will be able to determine what songs I play, based upon what's in my music library. I will be taking requests via this post as well as posts on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and all the other forums I post my playlist on. It should be an interesting mix!

Convalesce - Decisions EP (2009)

When bands are just starting out, often times they will play a style already well-entrenched into the current music fan's consciousness because they want to be noticed.  Sometimes, it's because they simply like the style that's currently popular.  Other times it's simply because that's what they have learned to play and are just trying to do the best they can with what they know while they are developing their style.  The bands that are smart about their early releases wait until they've done some developing of their sound so they can do something that's at least partially original or different so as to stand out from the crowd a bit and to be a bit more memorable from the get-go.  Convalesce is a relatively new band and does just that.

While highly percussive metalcore is nothing new, that style doesn't usually combine crushing heaviness, melody to spare, and that the percussive elements are primary electronic in nature, i.e. high-speed drum rolls or distorted noises that remind one of highly percussive industrial music.  This element is a key part of the Convalesce sound, at least as it pertains to this EP.  The primary hook here is not the "brootal" breakdowns that some metalcore bands are known for, but rather, the interesting way they weave these electronic percussive elements into their sound, which separates them from the average metalcore band.  That's not to say they don't have plenty of breakdown action for the fan looking for that element, because they do, but they strike a nice balance between crushing breakdowns, melodic passages, fast spots with plenty of double-bass drumming, and slower parts that show the bands penchant for layered production and intertwining guitar lines.  This reminds me of a studied version of Kingston Falls, in some ways, though without the overt sense of humor found on that band's debut full-length.


Guitar sound is great overall, with a nice heavy tone during the breakdowns and lower riffing, and clarity enough during the slower sections or more melodic bits that you can tell what's going on without having to turn it way up or listen over and over to figure out what's being played.  As with much extreme music, bass guitar isn't overly distinguishable in the mix, but provides that nice thump in the backdrop here and there, and serves its purpose by serving the songs.  Drumming is well done, with nice transitions between fast sections and various rolls and cymbal works to transition to slower sections or breakdowns.  Breakdown drumming is fairly non-descript, the usual cymbal sound over some thumping double-bass and occasional snare work. Vocals are more than the usual monotonic fare, with high and low-pitched growls/screams in the mix, sometimes with interplay between the two that has a bit of a "call and response" feel to it.


Lyrics are fairly straightforward and understandable, some quite bold in their proclamation of faith, others a bit more personal, written from the perspective of someone struggling with their faith or expressing humility because they know they are fallen.  The strongest track here is the opener, "Enemies", wisely put at the front of the CD to grab listeners and pull them in.  The rest of the tracks are no slouch, to be sure, but "Enemies" is definitely the centerpiece here.  "Unrested" is a strong closer with good melodic elements, a good anthemic lyric, and a fairly thunderous breakdown 2/3 of the way through, followed by a melodic line that helps bring the EP down and to a close.


One of the strengths of this release is also a weakness - the songs all kind of run together.  It's a strength from the standpoint that it doesn't let up, so if you're looking for intensity and non-stop action in your music (ADD, anyone?), this will do it for you.  However, that also works against the songs and the EP because unless you're paying attention to the album and listening intently, it all runs together so much that you might forget there are individual tracks or songs until the EP is done.  This may have been by design, seeing as how there are barely any transitions between songs, so I can't criticize too much, but it seems like with a style as compact and dense as this, a little "breathing room" is a good idea on occasion.  "Efileno" ("Onelife" backwards, perhaps?) appears to try and serve this purpose, but it, too, seems to fade out right into "Shelter" with no real respite moment.


On the plus side, there are moments during the fast sections where I'm reminded of Afterimage - that's a good thing.  They have created a melodic, yet intense style mixing metal and hardcore with great aplomb, so if Convalesce can perhaps increase the divide between the melodic sections and the more heavy, brutal bits, they can have an even more varied and interesting sound overall.  Ultimately, the way this EP is put together with the songs in the set and the intensity presented in this fashion works well.  It's just long enough and has just enough variation to let you know what the band is all about and give you a hint of what they're capable of, without too much left-field experimentation.  I would recommend before the band finishes recording their full-length (which they are purportedly doing as of this writing) that they expand their musical palette enough to make even stronger, more interesting songs.  And I'd say they need to explore and expand the electronic percussive elements even more, because that is the major element that really separates them from the pack.  Otherwise, for 6 bucks, this is a solid contender for your musical dollar.  Recommended.


70/100


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