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Band Name: Quell
Album Name: One Man's Struggle With The English Language
Rating: 4 / 5 User Rating: 0 / 5
Label: DRT Entertainment
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Tracklist
1. Start of an Unfinished Chain Reaction
2. Final Transaction and End Balance
3. Pants Aint Tight, Belt Aint White; You've Got a Lot to Learn About Rock
4. Mindset of the Average (Person/Culture/Nation/Father)
5. Requiem for Purity
6. Tedious Relay of Sand and the Pendulum And/Or Hourglass
7. Purge and Consolidate
8. Circumventing Language Barriers by Speaking Louder
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It’s good to finally hear the new Quell, the long awaited album by this North Carolina metal, hardcore and grind act, which features members from A Kiss Before Dying and Andrea’s Truth, as it will be one of the better releases in the genres of hardcore, and metal this year, yes sounds a bit overzealous but with one listen of the first track off this album you’ll be hooked. This album is also a Jamie King production so you know its going to be damn good.
So allow me elaborate on such a generalization, because my proof is in this Quell album. Any fans of A Life Once Lost, Between the Buried and Me, The Red Chord and Dillinger Escape Plan will have no trouble enjoying this release greatly. Quell can hold their own with the rest of em’ and do it even better than most. Also, you can’t call this a metalcore release so damn easy because it ranges from anything that you would hear in metal, grind, screamo, and hardcore.
“One Man’s Struggle with the Human Language” starts off the way albums should, fast and pounding. The opener “The Start of an Unfinished Chain Reaction”, begins this disc nicely as it rips through the next four minutes giving you merely a taste of what they are really capable of. Quell is the result when you combine talented musicians who have no defining boundaries when it comes to heavy music as you will hear in the following track “Final Transaction And End Balance” which after shredding, breaks it down then slows it all down just to build it all up again for another pit opener and then races back into fast tempo madness. Like the mood swings of a menopausal woman, this album shifts back and forth between a violent schizophrenia of killing sprees and then moments of levity which then lead into yet more moments of psychotic frenzy.
This band is out for blood.
Review by: Dave Huffy
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