Beyond The Styx - Collateral - Reviewed By Metal Digest ! Check it out here at this link: https://metal-digest.com/2022/03/07/beyond-the-styx-sentence/
Beyond the Styx (BTS) have been together for over a decade now with the French band having been compared to and toured with fellow hardcore stalwarts Terror and Malevolence and this year has BTS releasing ‘Sentence’, their first album since 2018.
Kicking off with ‘DC’, it sets the tone for what quickly becomes a very focused album of superior hardcore. ‘Sentence’ manages to provide each song with its own identity which gives a huge amount of variation throughout. There are no frills here, just 30 minutes and 10 songs of raw talent full of the chugging guitar riffs which are so synonymous with hardcore. Through tracks such as ‘ESC XIX’, ‘Self Hatred’ and ‘Chain of Life’, ‘Sentence’ manages to tick all the hardcore boxes which through its themes of self-loathing and isolation manages to empower the listener and make them feel good about themselves.
To be honest, ‘Sentence’ can be summed up in well, one sentence and that is that it is a great example of quality hardcore delivered at its most pure and simple. - Metal Digest !
Release Date: February 4th, 2022
FFO: Walls Of Jericho, Harm’s Way, Sworn Enemy
Location: France
Riding across Europe since 2011, BTSTYX is inspired by a dark and violent musical universe. At the crossroads between Hardcore, Metal & Thrash Crossover , the French quintet has unleashed the crowds on more than 180 gigs, alongside renowned bands such as: Terror, First blood, Nasty, Malevolence, Cold Hard Truth, Broken Teeth, Alea Jacta Est ... Following the release of his new studio effort: “ SENTENCE ” (recorded & produced by Christian Donaldson: Despised Icon, Get the Shot , Cryptopsy …), BTSTYX expresses a manifest, authentic, incisive desire to open minds to the evils that have been gnawing away for too long a most decadent modern society. “Is our history an eternal beginning?" That’s the challenge of Beyond the Styx: Embody the flapping of a butterfly wing. As weak as it may be... Being part of the storm of change!
Hit the road without counting the distance that separates the gig of tonight to the next, support each local scene so that Hardcore music exists today and tomorrow, rally the people to defend respect for difference, invite everyone to think about the drift of the values of our contemporary society so that our reality of today does not become our new Hell of tomorrow. Armed with a hardened line-up, BTSTYX drives the point by highlighting with « SENTENCE » the maddest torrent of live energy!
Sentence will be released Friday 4th February on WTF records:
https://wtfrecords.eu/beyond-the-styx/
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