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Armsbendback
The Waiting Room
Trustkill CD
If you are trying to guess an outfit's sound from their name, then Armsbendback's moniker may be deceiving. As stomach-turning as their name hints, they are far from a ravenous metal or hardcore group, yet they do contain a slight hard-nosed sound.
The Waiting Room definitely contains a resounding similarity to Helmet's last two efforts, Size Matters and Aftertaste. Driving and aggressive, yet there are plenty of layered guitar melodies and thick gut-bruising crunches and double-bass thumps to rattle your gulliver. The vocals are nicely sung and easy on the ears, with sporadic screams and wails rising in the background. Cool elements, but unfortunately it's a sound that doesn't hold my interest for long.
The Waiting Room might be best described as an agitated blend of Helmet's Aftertaste, The Juliana Theory's Love, and Shift's Get In, with some emotional rock bursts akin to Glassjaw, but personally it's hard for me to sit through one full listen. Feeling a bit shagged and fagged by the end of The Waiting Room, multiple listens never cross my thoughts.
Not bad, but not memorable, Armsbendback's echoing rock with hardcore tendencies fails to entice these aged ears.
by Fake Train
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