If the kids are tired of heaps of hefty and heroic hardcore, then 2010 most certainly isn’t listening.
Douglasville, Georgia’s ‘The Chariot‘ deliver ‘Long Live’ barely a breath after their last, and it’s a blinder.
It’s as brutal as it is an instant eargrabber – songs like ‘The City‘ and ‘Roberto Rios’ are begging to be seen live, and the record spews out the products of great ideas.
The best thing about the record is the way it doesn’t fuck around getting to the point – and in the dawning of the new age of the interlude, avoiding the overblown synth pauses is far from a bad thing.
There will always be respect due to bands that lay off the gimmicks and just smash out a great record, though that’s not to say ‘Long Live’ is predictable, because it’s really not.
Construct the following into a sentence and you’re just about there: raw, aggressive, intense, mathy, angry, clever.
Long live the Chariot indeed.