Beyond The Styx-Sentence album review. FFO: Chunky, crushing and meaty hardcore!!!

 

Beyond The Styx-Sentence album review. FFO: Chunky, crushing and meaty hardcore!!!

The French are dropping some mad metallic hardcore over the last few years and are really creating a solid range of bands with power. Beyond The Styx is another masterful and gnarly band that is killer. From end to end, this is solid, riff-heavy hardcore that really borders on beatdown. The gruelling vocals match the intensity and sting of the guitar work. Tracks like New World Disorder and Self Hatred show a real sense of life experienced pain and hardship, which results in epic tunes. I hear as much Bulldoze as Biohazard and even some First Blood, but this third release is very solid. The pace is decent, and the transitions in each track are smooth and also deeply aggressive. They also show tons of depth on tracks like Chain of Life, Machination and huge closer Cyclops. Combine this with hell-spawned heavy as fuck tracks like Scorch AD, ESC XIX and Collateral and you will be massively overwhelmed by the skills of this band that sit perfectly between metallic hardcore, crossover and beatdown. Also gotta pay kudos to the killer use of gang vocals and really intelligent lyrics. This is a band that you definitely need to pay attention to.

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