Despite the many different genres and factions, hardcore has always been a style of music bred from emotion. Whether personal, political, social, or abstract, the music has always been executed with a primal sort of visceral instinct.
Every few years a band comes around that is able to capture more specific areas of feeling than others. One such band is the South West UK’s MORE THAN LIFE. Emerging onto the scene in 2007 with their self-produced EP aptly titled PRELUADE, More Than Life began carving out a style of music as furious as their passion to be heard. The band exhibits such a frantic style of instrumental onslaught that one will be amazed how they manage to tie it all back together just before the train wrecks.
Their latest release LOVE LET ME GO out on ANCHORS AWEIGH RECORDS finds the band completely primed for international admiration. The record as a whole evokes an experience of Greek tragedy in audio form, violent and catastrophic. Rising and falling, building steam and crashing to a halt. The vocal delivery is an agonizing compliment to the lyrical content of heartbreak and loss.
It’s hard to say why certain bands shine above others. There are many factors involved. If you were to base it solely on the music alone, which is not always the deciding factor of a bands success, More Than Life is a band to float to the top.
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Label(s): Purgatory Records | Anchors Aweigh Records | Day By Day Records
Recorded in February 2010 at The Cros Nest, Croydon
Recorded and mixed by Sam Threader
Mastered by Martin Nichols at The White House, Kewstoke
Recorded and mixed by Sam Threader
Mastered by Martin Nichols at The White House, Kewstoke
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