The Batlord

Dude, to me, aside from the math ****, this sounds like the first time a hardcore band was playing metal, rather than a hardcore band playing metal influenced hardcore.* This was definitely a turning point in the history of 90s metalcore.

Integrity and Ringworm and Merauder and **** started the ball. Earth Crisis and Unbroken took it to the next level with better versions of Pantera riffs. And that **** was heavy as ****. But it's with **** like this, that was a major influence in mathcore (released in 1995) that the weirder, post-hardcore take on metalcore began, pretty much right at this album maybe.

And pretty soon you had Converge and Botch and DEP and etc al.

And yet no band would ever truly sound like this. This ****in epic weird badass ****ing thing.

Holy **** is this ridiculously badass.

*In relation to metalcore specifically

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