Amen. The Animal show the super strength hardcore slabs of Thursday and the lead-filled quaking vibrations of Hawthorne Heights. As stewards of post-hardcore edifices, Amen. The Animal’s latest release My Iron Heart is a 7-track disc with songs that ignite like sticks of dynamite and blasts with the force of jet-fuel emissions. The lead vocals have a cool melodic bellow as the guitarists charge with ram-rod thrusts and the rhythmic grooves penetrate the melodic reels as if they were made of tin. The band’s music is for the tough in spirit and hits with a punch that means business.
Tracks like “The Thing Is” and “That’s The Thing” are nu-metal textured instrumentals loaded with juicy chord sirloins, lacerating drumbeats, and dynamics that ravel and cool off forming durable building-blocks of tension and releases into outlets of melodic comfort. A deluge of power chords cover songs like “Prayer In Your Name” and “Blank Faces” as flashes of sharp cutting pellets in the drum strikes move in and off of the melodic parchment. The lyrics for “Blank Faces” shed light on the band’s themes of working through inner conflicts, “I lock the doors and shut out all the lights and let my body take over / I cry out for these days to come and go / Then slowly sink to the bottom lift up my hands and raise my eyes / The sky is closing in and all I can see are blank faces staring back at me.”
Amen. The Animal also called upon some friends to help them out with the recording like additional vocals by Doug Robinson from The Sleeping and additional guitars played by Taylor Larson and Jon Lane. The band’s nu-metal sparks, power chord wiring, and bountiful foliage is storybook hardcore with a hard rock fare and vocal prongs that are reminiscent of everything fans loved about the genre’s original makers.
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