There are three things that make me like this band. One, they have a ton of Star Wars references in their music. Actually, besides having a song named with a semi-obscure line from the original movie, there is an entire song about Darth Vader - shame on you if you are so culturally unaware as to who that is. Two, they are named after a Project X song. Three, some of the members used to be in the grossly underrated south Florida band Destro. That being said, this is a hardcore record and a fun hardcore record to say the least (see above reason number 1 for examples why). I do think it is ironic that this full-length is longer than the entire recorded output of one of their inspirations (see reason number 2 for a hint).
Breaking the Silence is a modern hardcore album with all of the fixings and breakdowns. Most of the record is mid-to-fast tempo songs of which there are a few highlights. "You Have the Right to Remain Dead" has some pretty good parts in its just over a minute time span, especially the last fifty seconds or so. I dig it. There is a good energy about it. "The Amity Island Massacre" has guest vocals by Kenn Marshall, the one time singer of Destro (see above reason number 3). It is good to hear him again, but the song is over rather quickly. "The Hurricane" is one of the longer songs and has a decent intro, which is also the outro, that seamlessly melds into another straight-up fast-paced hardcore song.
"Exploiting the Masses" has some real good guitar parts in it. I like the sound that the band has on this one. The transition to the outro is pretty cool too. "Red Faction and Biohazard" also has some excellent parts going on in it. The melodic guitar part in it comes out of nowhere and is gone almost in the same fashion. I like it. "In These Dark Days" is the aforementioned song about Darth Vader. Obviously, I like it by default. But the melodic style guitar that comes from out of nowhere plays hit and run on the listener again in this track as well, good stuff.
Dance Floor Justice put down a pretty good album in Breaking the Silence. The album could have benefited from amore ballsy and beefier production quality. I hope this is not the last that I hear from them. If they utilize the melodic guitar passages present in "Red Faction and Biohazard" and "In These Dark Days" they could do some really interesting things in the future.
