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NO/MÁS – “No Peace”
NO/MÁS – “No Peace”
by Thor
Washington D.C.’s grindcore upstarts NO/MÁS return with a new LP called “No Peace” from Redefining Darkness Records.
What’s immediately apparent is that NO/MÁS’s recipe for grind is a winner. Their base of operations is ultra-fast grindcore, obviously, but the band takes elements from grind’s two most adjacent subgenre’s—death metal and hardcore—and uses them to great effect.
Here, the band eschews the typical raw dissonance of grindcore in favor of death metal’s heft and guitar virtuosity by way of some well-composed, if totally unexpected solos.
Moreover, modern hardcore has a heavy presence here, too, as “No Peace” is full of d-beats that breakdown into monster grooves. And the whole enterprise has a polished production that rivals anything from Closed Casket or Triple B Records.
In fact, NO/MÁS’s “No Peace” is arguably more of a heavy hardcore album than it is grindcore, but these days that can be a distinction without a difference. Whatever you want to call it, the formula works. The album rips.
Fans of INSECT WARFARE, WORMROT, and NAILS will love this one.
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