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Second album for this American quartet that offers a fast-paced hardcore, with quick tempos and shouted vocals, but with very distinctive sounds that set them apart from most of the East-coast bands from where they originate.
"Threefold misery" reaffirms the good ideas of the previous "Holyname" and the confirmation comes immediately from the double episode "Invocation" - "Blood", the first introduced by a brief rising sequence of bass and drums, which transitions into the second track with a pause that feels almost like a 'stop & go'. Two songs in which the sonic impact is devastating although, unlike many bands that play the same genre, the guitar tone has a dispersive connotation due to the heavy distortion that characterizes all the songs on the CD.
"Killer Of The Soul" and "Being Or Body" offer a more paced but equally powerful rhythm, "Mantra six" has its strength in the guitar riff that repeats obsessively and sticks in your head from the first listen, while the rapid violence of the first two tracks returns with "Arctic".
"Threefold misery", released in 1996, is dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Srila Prabhupada's, founder of the Movement for Krishna Consciousness, to whom the 108 are devoted.
A very good hardcore album that combines the sonic immediacy of the 'Old school' with mid-tempos and the philosophical despair of the modern concept of HC. A record that, in my opinion, has its strength in the original sound of the 108 and in the good impact of each single song, an impact that the band manages to recreate live as well. Another particular aspect lies in the Hare Krishna attitude, certainly 'alternative' within the HC scene.
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