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Balboa / Nitro Mega Prayer
Forge Again Split CD EP
It's time to let out those bottled anguished emotions.
Now this I can listen to for hours on end. Disgusted, heated, and emotionally inflamed, Philadelphia's Balboa and Japan's Nitro Mega Prayer lets loose with vivid and intense hardcore-punk.
Taking cues from scream machines like Closure, Portraits of Past, Amanda Woodward, Kaospilot, pg. 99, and City of Caterpillar, both Balboa and Nitro Mega Prayer uncover and expose impassioned emotions that burn from unhappiness and tiring frustration. With bloodcurdling screams and bone-rattling noise, these two outfits touch the deepest nerve.
Balboa has stayed consistent since their metallic debut at stitching a dirty patchwork of hardcore, punk-rock, and melancholic melodies together. Their four songs on this split might just be their most abrasive and potent. Thick, bass-heavy hardcore-punk, with grimy layers of guitars and cries of desperation, Balboa lets it all out. Track three, "Renga," is a misty and cool instrumental, but it's "Rotgut" that will make you clench your teeth and tighten your fists.
Balboa knows how to uncover the deepest emotions, but it's Nitro Mega Prayer's side of the split that I got lost in the most.
Even if you don't understand Japanese, you can feel what Nitro Mega Prayer is saying. The vocals are piercing and knife-like, desperately trying to tread a sea of an angrily charged bass and guitar attack. Nicely combining melody and soft interludes with anguish and bitter dynamic punk-rock, Nitro Mega Prayer takes you on a journey. The seven minute "Filter" will have you wandering and getting absorbed in your own tormented thoughts. I dig it.
These guys are pissed.and you should be too!
by Fake Train
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