Gloves Off - "Life...And Everything After" - Reviewed By My Revelations ! Check it out here at this link: https://www.myrevelations.de/2022/01/29/gloves-off-life-and-everything-after/
GLOVES OFF are still a rather blank slate in our latitudes. Five years ago, the band was founded in Pennsylvania and has been traveling the States ever since to make a name for themselves. Will it be enough for the big hit here in Europe? Conundrum. Although one reads again and again term hardcore when it comes to the musical orientation of the band, I can only agree with that to a very limited extent. This is the maximum still rudimentary elements that come from hardcore, otherwise there is a hell of a lot of metal in the mix. Extreme metal. When GLOVES OFF say that BEHEMOTH is also one of their influences, you can roughly imagine where the journey is going. Black metal elements alternate with thrashy mid-tempo parts, but the song had an introduction that could also have come from SICK OF IT ALL. Above all this sits the very aggressive and growling vocals of frontman Cody. Full of anger and hatred, he roars into the microphone, while the song takes a very abrupt break and now slowly crawls on in Doom climes. An interesting and exciting mixture to shake the GLOVES OFF out of the sleeve, but the whole thing is also very exhausting. Due to the constant changes, sometimes the red thread goes flute, but the songs are not yet mature enough. The sound is, how could be otherwise with the music, also very raw and brutal. In this case, however, it fits like ass on bucket. "Life... And Everything Afte" is a strenuous album that challenges the listener, and does not invite you to sort the stamps in parallel. If the quintet manages to bring a little more straightforwardness into their songs, we have a real hate before it has washed itself. - My Revelations
Photo Credit: Ariella Lungin
Release Date: January 28, 2022
FFO: Hatebreed, Terror, Brick By Brick
PA's metallic hardcore heathens release the second chapter to their debut release on Upstate Records, "Life...And Everything After"; an emotional rollercoaster of pure aggression and angst that is sure to leave the listener battered and bruised!
This heavy metallic hardcore outfit out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, revels in a particularly down 'n' dirty brand of aggression. Their catalog is rife with cranium-crushing instrumentation, emotive lyrical content, a methodically vicious bite, and more pent-up antagonism than most can reasonably muster. Overtly inspired by literary greats such as Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Rimbaud, and following in the musical footsteps of acts such as The Acacia Strain, Baptists, and A Life Once Lost, Gloves Off comfortably wreck havoc in the no man's land that sits somewhere between "firmly grounded" and "explosively volatile." From a musical, emotional, and thematic standpoint, this quintet’s output bears considerable weight.
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Gloves Off’s next project, out January 28th, 2022 in collaboration with Upstate Records , isn’t entirely typical. The framework of this forthcoming is deliberately unconventional, born of the implicit challenges presented by the pandemic. The first four tracks were released in March of 2020 in the form of an EP entitled Life, which appears here once more alongside five brand new songs seeking to explore ...And Everything After. If the preexisting tracks comprising Life aren't enough to accordingly whet your whistle, keep one ear open for the Poe-inspired lead single "Conqueror Worm,"--an homage to the play of man wherein the titular harbinger of apocalypse is the true hero--which will drop on December 10th of this year. A subsequent second single, the gritty yet emotively bombastic "My Death Was a Banquet," inspired by Rimbaud's "A Season In Hell," enters the arena on January 7th.
Although bifurcated, this project forms a cohesive whole: in the words of vocalist Cody Clark, the project’s tail end is an exploration of the process after the loss of life. Life and death are intrinsically hefty topics, and Gloves Off strives to exorcize the demons rather than simply pretending they don’t exist. As such, Life...And Everything After is an intentionally therapeutic project, both for the band and for any listener grappling with the enormity of life, death, and inevitable loss. And, lest we forget the exhilaration of peeling off the gloves and throwing hands: grappling in a physical sense is wholeheartedly encouraged as well.
"In the second part of our release "...And Everything After" we wrote it not as in the process of losing everything (Life),but the process after the loss of losing everything, there's a certain romance and poetic stance on death that can be beautiful as well as disturbing, we write what we like as a band, musically and lyrically, just so happens we think about life and death in a dark sense instead of hiding demons, we let them out in a therapeutic way for the listener as well as us to enjoy" -Cody Clark, Vocalist
Catch GLOVES OFF on November 20, 2021 at the first ever Upstate Records Family and Friends showcase at The Brooklyn Monarch Brooklyn, NY with Nuclear Assault, Subzero, Tombs, Sworn Enemy and more!
Doors at 3, Show starts at 4. More Info And Tickets HERE !
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