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On Hell Is For Heroes' Transmit Disrupt, we find a recent Burning Heart signing that could've just as easily fit on the Lujo Records roster. What this means is impressively dense post-hardcore with a soft Fugazi influence spread conservatively throughout that requires repeated listening but rewards sufficiently.

Hell Is For Heroes' song structure could certainly use a bit of work, but they know how to drop a well-placed hook where it needs to be, while songs like "Kamichi" exhibit strange time signatures and compelling rhythms. They clearly know how to create atmosphere without half-assed guitar swirling, instead going for multiple layers and cymbal-heavy percussion. The Muse nodding of "Quiet Riot" is quite helpful, serving up a grey and spacey, five-minute post-destruction landscape.

Some reviews have spotted a subtle influence from Refused, and while it's a bit outlandish to think of, there are spots where it's clear HIFH have definitely taken cues. The excellent "Models For the Programme" abruptly hints at Dennis Lyxzén's intense yelp in its chorus, as does the charged yells, few outright screams and simpler riffing of "Folded Paper Figures" and light electronics in "One of Us."

Transmit Disrupt may be in need of some more connection inside of its individual tracks and some time-wise trimming overall, but Hell Is For Heroes brew a thick, tasty stew here. Just be sure to spit out the bones.

MP3
One of Us

VIDEO
Kamichi 56k | DSL



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    Posted by miff on 2006-03-06 16:31:32

    well it did in britain

    Posted by miff on 2006-03-06 16:31:17

    yeh im positive it did

    Posted by miff on 2006-03-06 16:31:00

    i thought this came out last year?

    Posted by primeevil7 on 2006-03-05 16:48:06

    Am I the only one who hears a On the Might of Princes vibe from these guys?

    Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2006-03-05 05:26:39
    My Score:

    Score is for this band being ex-symposium, which i truly hope somebody on here remembers.

    Posted by davebrave4 on 2006-03-04 18:14:17

    Quiet Riot:
    Cum on feel the noise
    Girls rock your boys
    We'll get wild, wild, wild

    Anyway, I don't know much about this band, but I tend to think of bands on Burning Heart as boring, despite the exciting label name.

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 11:11 AM (EST)

    When they played a shpw with Feeder, all you could hear was the drums. They actually made my friend throw up.

    Good times.

    The Neon Handshake is a decent album, but I prefered the earlier version of "I Can Climb Mountains" to the album version.

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 9:42 AM (EST)

    Horrible.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 11:40 PM (EST)

    meh. Trebley guitars and high pitched singing. Not really my thing.

    Posted by Neo_Reloaded on 2006-03-03 22:47:10

    Great album. Neon Handshake was better, but hey. I've had this album since very early 2005, when it was released in the UK - I didn't think there'd ever be a US release (still none for Neon Handshake...). Praying for a US tour, but not getting my hopes.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 4:19 PM (EST)

    I read that they the movie ended just because they ran out of film. It sounds shoddy, which it may have been at the time, but it fits perfectly with the turmoil of war and death.

    -Will

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 2:58 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    The band name is not a reference to the "Modern Life is War" (As far as I'm aware, HIFH have been around longer than MLIF).

    It's a direct lift of the title of a 1962 film starring Steve McQueen where his squad must fight off Germans in France in 1944. Good film, great ending, with a slight anti-war type of message.

    Posted by Sluggo on 2006-03-03 13:54:24

    is this band's name a modern life is war reference, or is it a phrase that has been around and i just never heard it til it was in that MLIW song title?

    Posted by Dante3000 on 2006-03-03 12:09:55

    Is the song "Quite Riot" about the band of the same name?
    That'd be totally awesome. Or just cover that "Feel the Noise" song.
    -Dante

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 11:50 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    Neon Handshake was miles better.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 10:04 AM (EST)

    Symposium were shit until they briefly went metal.

    Good luck to these guys though, the debut was great.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 8:25 AM (EST)

    Hell Is For Heroes will never never live up to the wonder that was Symposium.

    Posted by ghostmonkey on 2006-03-03 07:46:32

    good to see some brits on here!! good album all round.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 3:16 AM (EST)

    ..lame

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 3:05 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    Hell is for Hawthorne Heights.

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