1. Crooked Hands
2. Misery King
3. Her Casket Holds No Bones
4. Nausea
5. Matriarch
6. Sea of Teeth/Bleak Eyes
7. Heir of the Dog

I was not prepared for such anger and volume of screaming and passion. You can’t fault the performance in this album, they’re bleeding every drop of sound out of every song and I love and appreciate this more than anything else in a band. The massively downtuned guitars create a dark backdrop to this hardcore rock and they have a neverending cache of effects and ideas to create their original sound: from the ringing minor 3rd in the guitar over most of “Her Casket Holds No Bones”, the polyrhythms of the vocals against the drums in “Nausea” and stop time stabs between the punched out vocals in the breakdown of “Misery King”, Bastions certainly are creative.

If you listen to this, actually, when you listen to this (because you really should) you’ll be sure to be blown away by those vocals, which crack and roar with an anger seldom heard. Unlike many hardcore vocalists who seem happy to scream at the same level through every song, the singer of Bastions manages to exert expression yet never yield in the brutality of the sound.

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