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Band Name: Within Chaos
Album Name: What Doesn't Kill You...
Rating: 4 / 5 User Rating: 4.5 / 5
Label: Independent Release
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Tracklist
1. What Doesn't Kill You
2. Chinese Water Torture
3. The Order Within Chaos
4. Into The Shadows
5. Power Trip
6. Curveball
7. Rebirth of Rebellion
8. Buried Alive
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Do you remember the good old days of head banging in a circle? Most likely pioneered by Slayer (when they still had hair), this move updated the traditional head bang by using a circular motion of the neck rather than an up and down motion. This circular motion then created a cyclone of hair that other concert goers or band members would have to watch out for. Of course head banging makes one nearly blind and completely vulnerable to being toppled over by moshers, which is probably why its popularity has waned in recent years.
Thank God, or rather Satan, for bands like Within Chaos. Who knows if Within Chaos will be able to completely bring back head banging, but it has certainly brought back the music and the sprit that inspired the move in the first place. Pop in Within Chaos' new CD 'What Doesn't Kill You…' and guaranteed you will feel an urge to swing your head in a circle, and even those who are too young to remember the late eighties and early nineties will get this inexplicable urge to be Kerry King.
Haling from Texas, Within Chaos has hooked up with the Texas Producer D. Braxton (famous for working with bands such as Drowning Pool) with excellent results Inevitably well recorded and well mixed 'What Doesn't Kill You…' boasts elements of Pantera, Slayer, Chimaira, and Lamb of God with an innovative twist all its own. The title track is one of the strongest: A short intro of sprawling riffage and heavy drums sets the stage for vocalist Danny Reid's rapid fire, guttural yell as he delivers the opening lines 'separate your Vision from your victim/ seeking truth in all your present forms of interrogation'. Within Chaos delivers a meaningful use of blast beats throughout the album, using them to emphasize certain extremely brutal parts of the song, rather than haranguing the listener throughout like death and black metal bands do. This minimal use of blast beats does not by any means make Within Chaos' music less heavy. You will NOT hear any classical, instrumental interludes. The album is consistently angry and assaulting with tracks like 'The Order Within Chaos' structured with moments of faced paced trash alternating with slower, shredding breakdowns. Think early Pantera, or Fear Factory. The tension in a song is constantly built up and then released, and this release is what inspires the circular head banging mentioned above. To compliment this sonic onslaught is guitarist Travis Boyd's high pitched, arpeggio riddled, guitar solos. Tracks like 'Into the Shadows' display Boyd's guitar work (that is nearly worthy of the late, great 'Dime Bag' Darrel) in a minimal but effectively way, much like the blast beats.
In a world of MTV, and radio friendly emo, Within Chaos' is a band that will make metal fans proud. There are no Screamo moments of sensitive introspection here. There is only uncompromising, innovative, and relentless metal. Just one listen of 'What Doesn't Kill You…' will make you forget the embarrassing marketing of rap rock in the mid nineties, and then commercialized Screamo bands of today. Within Chaos' music takes the listener back to the days when metal came into its own, the days when the spandex was thrown out and Slayer and Pantera ruled the world.
Review by: Colette Claire
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