Band: .22LR
For fans of: Frail Body, Othiel, Gil Cerrone, Youth Funeral, Crowning, Brahm, Elle, Beau Navire, and Heavenly Blue.
Genres: Punk / Emo / Screamo / Skramz / Emo-violence
For fans of: Frail Body, Othiel, Gil Cerrone, Youth Funeral, Crowning, Brahm, Elle, Beau Navire, and Heavenly Blue.
Genres: Punk / Emo / Screamo / Skramz / Emo-violence
Related artists: Less Dead, Low Before The Breeze, Noisy Sins Of The Insect, Stevan Filopovic, Tara Tarama, and Jornada Del Muerto.
Country: Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A. + Istanbul TURKEY
Years Active: 2024-present
Years Active: 2024-present
Label(s): Tomb Tree / Mevzu Records
After releasing such an incredible debut I felt it necessary to try and push it a bit more through this blog, cuz goddamn why aren't more people talking about how awesome this is?
Born from the ashes of Less Dead and Low Before The Breeze, the origin of the band is traced by their members in this exclusive Idioteq.com piece that you need to check out if you dig this release. Essentially their final member if from Turkey but has been frequenting the U.S. enough for him to be included in the fold, and has spent time in a few bands including the most notable Noisy Sins Of The Insect and Jornada Del Muerto.
The bands' sound is rooted in fast, short, violent bursts of screamo but manage to hit the slow motion button and insert some incredible nuances, frills, and melodies not unlike Frail Body, Youth Funeral, and Othiel. It's almost like screamo on speed then diced up with post-hardcore. 36-second opener "Once/Always" teases a lone guitar before pulverizing the listener with lightning fast instrumentals and a buncha vocalists screaming. "Sinking" shows the band showing a firm grasp of soft/hard and slow/fast dynamics with hella atmosphere that teeter into black metal territory but bring it back to pulsating screamo at the one-minute mark. Continuing the heater trajectory, "Alone" blazes through its first 30 seconds before planting firmly into some slower, very accessible, emo/post-hardcore instrumentals that showcase the band's aforementioned ability to balance a feather with an anvil. "Too Late" follows in a similar path (aka fire) and then shifts into slightly slower, but this time to a much heavier, cathartic, and sinister second half with the best vocals on the entire EP. "Gratitude Denied" and "Golden Calf" both show the band gravitating toward the emo/post-hardcore/screamo sound I mentioned earlier with injections of both beauty and chaos. Closer "Epilogue" is an instrumental number but not the throwaway kind, rather the epic-closer kind.
I can't recommend this EP enough. I think it's fucking stellar, bias be damned.
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DISCOGRAPHY
2024 - .22lr cassette EP (listen/download/buy here)
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(2024) .22LR - "Too Late" (from '.22lr')
(2024) .22LR - "Alone" (from '.22lr')
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