Enola Grey
Cabal
Feeling Faint (2005)
Beginning a band is no easy task, there are many pressures involved with the entire process. Those pressures intensify when you're coming from a previous band that was considered to be fairly popular; it's a double-edged sword. You're pretty much ensured free exposure and publicity based on the fact that the new project gets the "ex-members of..." tagline. But with that comes the expectations from fans and critics. Nine times out of ten they're expecting the re-incarnation of the previous band, and that very rarely happens. This is where Enola Grey currently sits, as they have just released their debut EP. Cabal is a riff-roaring EP in which Enola Grey shreds through six tracks in just over 17 minutes. Over the course of those songs the band, whether intentionally or not, seems to avoid creating music devoid of off time signatures and constant changeups in the songs' technical structuring, characteristics that were definitive of Martyr A.D. Rather, Enola Grey focus on playing straightforward music that blends early thrash, groove-heavy metal, and just a dash of hardcore. In their attempts to create music that is incapable of comparison to Martyr A.D., the band has limited themselves to writing fairly predictable music … Read more
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Hydra Head (2005)
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Paradise
Jade Tree (2005)
CVA was fucking perfect. Naysayers beware: I am willing to defend that position. A hardcore supergroup of sorts (combining members … Read more
Transistor Transistor
Erase All Names and Likeness
Level Plane (2005)
It's not very often these days one gets the opportunity to use the phrase "This brings the ROCK" without sounding … Read more
Hank Jones
Saturdays of Thunder
Undecided (2005)
An album cover with a skull, blood streaks and three fingers makes the viewer think of death, violence, periods and … Read more
