My life long trip through hardcore music has brought me to three kinds of hardcore bands. You have your hardcore acts that just pummel the hell out of you, but they offer up enough change ups in the mix of their albums so that your blood is pumping but you recognize, amidst the aggressiveness of said band, a kind of intelligence and beauty for their art. Another type of hardcore band is one that isn’t afraid to take a very risky leap off of the traditional stage of hardcore music and add stuff like subtle synthesizers or offer slight change ups between blood curdling yells with a bit of harmony, but not to much. Then you have your bands that are simply aggressive and in your face, and at first glance its gets your blood up and your ready for anything, but as the album rolls on your adrenaline is replaced with boredom as the entirety of said album becomes one very long track. This was my experience with Powerwolves.

Having no lyric sheet its hard to discern what’s being said unless you want to loop the album and really pay close attention. Try as I might I was only able to get through the album three times, the rest of my research came from reading other reviews of the album and taking that writers word that what they perceived as the stories behind the songs were in fact true. Political, personal, pretty much the usual. It’s a lot of anger, animosity, and angst thrown into a blender of crunching guitars, relentless drums, and a world of blood curdling vocals. Some of the stand out tracks on the album would have to be The Chaos You Made, in which there is a decent breakdown in the middle of the song, and They Keep Us, which is probably the most focus track on the album with the most coherent use of guitar. Other then that the album is well produced but still lacking real focus here and there and, to me, musically, a bit of the old same old, same old.