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A lesson in style.
Recently, a lot of hc with its galaxy of related sounds tends to resemble certain singer-songwriter styles à la Nick Drake. A formula that can't always work. Either you do it right or you end up dropping you-know-what. Not everyone is a born storyteller. We're still talking about that branch that shaped its sound based on the first incarnation of emotional hardcore by Rites of Spring, of course, but the feeling is that the abrasiveness of certain sounds is sometimes waning, dulling the blades that should also characterize the genre's more introspective interpretations.
Thus, a handful of veterans of the scene come together to rediscover the ferocity that animated California's underground scene of the mid-90s. And a bomb explodes. The Unexamined Life. 14 years after "Chaos Is Me". A few minutes of scalding music. Jarring and abrasive tones, apocalyptic mood. Few words written in blood and heavy as boulders.
A lesson in style.
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