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How It Ends
So Shall It Be
Thorp Records
http://www.thorprecords.com/
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Get ready…over the next two years you are going to hear 50 new bands that all sound just like Hatebreed. As soon as one band becomes successful, record labels pump out endless knockoffs that sound just like them. So it was with some trepidation that I approached How It Ends' new album, especially since the record label had included the line "for fans of Hatebreed" on the CD packaging.

Thankfully, How It Ends delivered a sound that is nothing like Hatebreed and all their own. Take the heaviness of Crowbar and speed up the tempos - a blistering, powerful force that just knocks you over. Sure the guys have the delivery of a hardcore band, but their overall feel on "Empty Nothing Forever," "Crippled," and "End The Suffering" is more akin to southern doom - i.e. Crowbar and EyeHateGod. It has that overall feeling of "the endless suffering and pain I've endured from life's cruel fate" that doesn't come off cheesy because of the full-on aggression. This creates a unique sound for these guys that really works.

Hailing from Philadelphia, How It Ends just bowls you over with their sound. "Thou Shall Not" and "Imprisoned" are so raw and open-faced that it's refreshing. It almost sounds as if they've overloaded the guitar channels producing sandpaper like levels of distortion on "Time Life Took," "Painkiller," and "Dying Eyes"

If these guys can avoid getting lumped in with the hundreds of lame-ass hardcore or heavy bands coming out these days, they will be remembered. The sound is all theirs and brutal to the core.

 

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