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Media Review
Music Quality: 3.0
Production: 6.0
Originality: 2.0
Tracklisting
2. Life Grows Cold
3. The Stone Grinds
4. The Price Of Punishment
5. Genuine Sense Of Outrage
6. Destroying Cenodoxus
7. New Sun Rising
8. Your Time Is Near
9. Silence Is Bliss
10. Nothing Lasts
11. Belly
12. Odium Vice
13. Mankind Screams
The question that came up after listening to “Genuine Sense of Outrage,” the new album by The Warriors is: isn’t hardcore supposed to be invigorating? The Warriors have made a hardcore/metal album that is boring, one of the dullest albums all year. Sure, it has all of the metal break downs, screeching guitars, punishing drums, guttural screams, but the soul is gone. By the end of the record, if you’ve managed not to sleep through it, or just turn it off out of frustration, you’ll be wondering how, with all of the necessary ingredients, The Warriors failed.
The album starts off with a wannabe rager, “The Ruthless Sweep.” The song is filled with guttural yelling, but it never seems to find any sort of rhythm or a hook to exist on. It’s a hard song to sit through, becoming exhausting to listen to at the end. Nothing in the song makes it compelling. It’s just noisy, repetitive, and completely pointless. The album follows in suit, trying to find some sort of hook to play off of, but in the end finding nothing but feed back.
What struck me about Alexisonfire’s last release, “Crisis,” was how effortlessly the band was able to fuse hardcore and metal elements, but make them tuneful and listenable. The same was true with Underoath. Both bands made destructive, noisy music that was palatable. It wasn’t just trying to mimic a destructive sound, but build on it to truly make music, and it made it enjoyable because of that. The Warriors never find that balance, or really anything other than typical metal clichés in their songs. Their last album had a sort of balance and flow to it, but the band has lost it completely.
There isn’t much more I can say about the album. At the end, all of the songs sounded the same. The vocals were uninspired, the instrumentation was derivative, and there was not a single memorable moment on the record. In the wide open world of the hardcore genre, go find something else to listen to. There are a plethora of other, better options than this record.