HOW (IT) ENDS-SO SHALL IT BE
THORP RECORDS
www.howitends.netHow (it) ends is a blistering, seething, unbridled
wall of rage in the form of hard-core from Pennsylvania. If you are
planning on repainting your home and are having difficulty removing
the old paint, spin How (it) Ends release "So Shall it be"
in your disc player. One track should be plenty if you want your walls
to be thoroughly bare. In fact, there may well be very little remaining
in your home after just one listen. In the purest of forms, How (it)
Ends plays a viciously fierce style of hard-core with doomsday prophecy
lyrics, guttwrenching vocals, rumbling double base work with an endlessly
dense series of guitar divisions. If you aren't being accosted by
the vocals alone, the sonic blasts of the bass, the drums, as well
as the lead guitars will certainly leave you exhausted. What makes
their sound so utterly rich in noise is a tempo that is rapid in pace
but still keeps a sense of being syncopated. Its a thrusting, rhythmical
slice of hard-core with the exception of a creative lyrical border
that travels through a world consumed with chaos, death, torture and
arrant hopelessness. The doom and gloom theme marks the songs with
a darker, more foreboding vibe. Where the majority of hard-core styled
bands tend to focus on self-empowerment, How (it) Ends leans more
towards issues of a world with an apocalyptic demise. Hence the name....
By all means, this is a considerably great release from these guys
but there are some uncanny similarities to Hatebreed. Namely, tracks
such as "Time Life Took", "Dying Eyes", and "Hardest
Lesson" seem to resemble Hatebreed in such a way that you might
mediate if they used the same person to master their CD. This doesn't
depreciate the value of the disc but it does echo the faint sounds
of "copy cat". If you are looking for another way to wake
up in the morning without the addiction of coffee, play a little How
(it) Ends to get a jump-start on the day.
Reviewed By: Brodie Holmen.
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