Reviews

This is one of those bands that comes along and after you hear them you just can’t stop wanting to put their CD back in the player.  Jay Pepito has brought together a great hardcore band after leaving Blacklisted.  This marks the band’s second release, their original demo is now a 7” EP.  The first song, “I Stand Defiant,” hits you in the face and gives you a good idea of what is to come.  By the time you’ve regained consciousness, “Iscariot” slows down the tempo for a great sludge two-step riff, the best on the record.  “To A Dead God” just continues where the last two tracks left off, pummeling you in the face.  Hands down my favorite song on this EP is “Still Unbroken”.  The lyrics are truthful and the song just rips; a hardcore anthem, without a doubt.  The last song, “Faithless,” is probably the most powerful lyrically on the album; it covers greed, humanity, faith and politics, all in less than 3 minutes.

The album design was done by the head of Deathwish, Jacob Bannon, who has one of the best reputations in the genre.  The only thing keeping me from giving this release 5 stars is the fact that it’s an EP and it’s only about twelve minutes, so you don’t really feel like you get your fix until you’ve listened to the thing 3 times.  Look for a full-length release to blow the doors off of everything; this band is going to take over the hearts of every hardcore kid in Philadelphia.  Pretty soon, when people think of Philadelphia hardcore, they’ll think of Reign Supreme.