Turmoil
From Bleeding Hands

I have already talked to you about Earth Crisis and Strife; to complete the quartet of my favorite Metalcore bands from the nineties, Integrity and Turmoil are still missing. I will deal with the latter this evening, inaugurating my review year of 2017. And I do so with one of the heaviest albums of those glorious and never forgotten years; thirty frightening minutes.

They hail from American soil, Pennsylvania to be precise. They cut their teeth in their early years by touring with Agnostic Front, Madball, Life Of Agony, Snapcase, and the three bands I mentioned just above. In 1996, they exploded with this "From Bleeding Hands": which already bleeds from the cover; then comes the total devastation of their sound.

A perverse musical form that fully exploits the adrenaline-rich speed of old school Hardcore; adding to this chaos slowed down, jarring, oppressive, painful sound structures. Slow spirals of a black sound that calls to mind dark oceanic abysses of unimaginable depths; and finally the rigorous mental "discipline" typical of Straight Edge. A closed and "tubed" production contributes to making the listening to the album even more dramatic and fuels a widespread sense of claustrophobia; and it is for this impressive wall of sound that with each new listen I always feel the urge to reach the end of the record as soon as possible. Listen to the ruinous two minutes of the second track "Fuse" and you will understand my previous reasoning.

For those who are interested, there are the equally epileptic "Choke" and "Evolution Of Lies": HC, Metal, and Noise join, creating a bone-crushing, spasmodic, lightning-fast sonic mixture. Like a nuclear fall-out...NEW MEDIA...

Ad Maiora.