He considers himself an old dude in a young person’s world. Tagged: war plague About the Author Adam YoeĪdam Yoe loves dogs, hardcore, the woods, coffee, and baseball. The usual suspects are still our guideposts. If you’re looking for a sign, keep your eyes fixed to the North Star State. Whether you’re a fan of labelmates Exploatör, the oft-tipped Tragedy, World Burns to Death, the motö-punks Inepsy, or modern faves Destruct, there’s something here to latch onto. Despite the travails of remaining staunchly DIY, War//Plague have never been reduced to embers. Instead, they’ve managed to keep the fire alit their entire career. It’s a glorious show of humility that’s born of nothing but chemistry and commitment. Playing to each other’s strengths, the four piece all play in service to the song. The track’s outro finds the band at their most harrowing, pairing haunted vocals to a sludgier sound and an anvil-heavy low end. Ostensibly the album’s moodpiece, it buries the band’s firebrand crust attack between longer and more textured bookends. As the longest track, the larger canvas allows the band to open up a bit. As expected, it scavenges from the best and rebirths it into something wholly unique, even this deep into their discography.Ĭloser “Necrosis” is fittingly fetid. Kicking into being on blazing guitar histrionics, rarely has a deceptively simple riff sounded so note perfect. Leaning all the way into their thrashier tendencies, the tempo is savage but it vacillates seamlessly between the sound of their long held inspirations.įollow up and personal favorite “Vultures” is another long form rager. Across its four minute runtime, War//Plague manages to find new ways to crush.
The title track sports both their densest and busiest moments. Dynamic, nihilistic, and charged with a pugilistic sensibility, the is the soundtrack to never giving in. Moving deftly from the mid-paced to a more frenzied speed, it’s just another bullet on the belt for the crust masters. On “Bed of Nails," we’re gifted a wildly fluctuating vocal performance atop a steamrolling militarism akin to DM legends Asphyx. This band has always seemed to live on the razor’s edge, careening wildly between blistering implosion and the tightness of a band well into their second decade.Įlsewhere, the collection treads well the band’s standard battle ground. In any format, it’s an impressive feat to keep the listener enthralled. For every straight ahead passage of pummeling d-beat, there are blackened accoutrements and various touchstones of extreme music’s storied history tacked into the mix along the way.īetween the tremolo picking, the savagely unpredictable vocals, and the flawless transition into death metal inspired primitivism at the 3:00 mark, War//Plague have never felt more vital and incendiary.Įschewing both the short, controlled burst template and the overly long, the band finds an epic but blunt sensibility that lives in the three to four-minute range. It takes nary a second to unleash their now trademark take on thrash inflected crust. Opener “Vacillation” fades in with a rumble, the drums already impossibly busy and the bass a thumping piston. The co-release finds the band teaming Czech purveyor of extremity Phobia Records and Organize and Arise, the long running Twin City mainstay.
#Metal bookends full#
On the eve of their 15th year as a band comes their latest full length, Manifest Ruination. With a sprawling and industrious back catalog, few bands have been as consistent or prolific, boasting numerous long players and a smattering of essential splits with genre heavyweights.
The scorched earth, apocalypse-beckoning aesthetic and sound of the Minneapolis band has been a pillar of DIY punk for a decade plus. The bleak binary of Minnesotan crust horde War//Plague has long been a fitting moniker.
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