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Betrayed
Substance
Equal Vision CD
The future of hardcore is here.
Substance contains just that. Betrayed's first full-length intensely and passionately barrels through thirteen dynamic straightforward hardcore numbers. Members of Champion and Carry On breathe life into a tired and worn sound.
"We search for substance / A fight to bring some meaning / To have our lives be more / Then a grain of sand lost on the beach / That's washed away by time's embrace."*
Hardcore has always been about setting ideas into motion. A raw fervent sound that's full of purpose, honesty, and yes, substance. Taking their cues from the pioneers of early 80s hardcore, Betrayed echoes that fiery emotional delivery of past while injecting a heated burst of extreme force all their own. With Aram Arslanian's stentorian voice and Todd Jones' dynamically compelling guitar work, Betrayed's perpetual energy hits hard.
"The City Lights," "Crossroads," and "A Light In the Dark" contain additional eruptions of melody and spine-tingling guitar picks that set them apart. Substance contains two tracks off Betrayed's recent split release with Champion, "Consequence" and "Bring It To Life." Undeniably "Bring It To Life" is one of the most infectious and grasping tracks I've heard all year. It's so reverberating guitar plucks that bring me down to my knees. Awesome.
Produced by Kurt Ballou, Substance is a powerful and briskly intense and energetic album that hardcore fans old and new will get lost in. Betrayed can play fast, and the insistent pounding of Substance will make you spit blood, especially on circle-pit starters like "Think Twice," "Consequence," and "Understand." Substance is an endless spin of shout-alongs, good ol' driving hardcore, heart-racing rhythms, and those chilling melodic spurts of resounding guitars.this is an album full of substance.
by Fake Train
*Taken from "Substance"
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