yeah, i couldn't get into the earlier stuff either, but what's breaking through the sound on the disc is the stacked 6ths - which is an oldskool melodic hardcore thing. i know you want to think newer bands. but, i'd be more likely to suggest it's in utero + brian baker + husker du. i'm wanting to take it back a bit because it doesn't have the kind of pointless macho aggression that really ruined hardcore through the 90s and into the 00s, but has mostly receded through this "screamo revival" thing. so, i'd actually want to align it with stuff like animal faces, touche amore, defeater, native....
i caught 'em in a 50 person bar in ottawa last year and it was definitely a show of the face melting variety - and the right way to experience the record.
Taimir Gore
What are stacked 6ths?
deathtokoalas
there's a technical definition that i'm using a little bit haphazardly, but what i mean to say is that the chords often include the sixth of the scale in them, as well as higher notes (like a transposed 4th). that gives it that thicker, jazzier sound. as mentioned, it's a defining characteristic of 80s hardcore.
Taimir Gore
Ah okay. Makes sense.
