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• Metal's such a crowded marketplace these days that you can't even rely on plundering the Hebrew Bible for band name inspiration. Bristol's Honour Your Pain had to change their name from Gehenna, presumably because the Norwegian black metal act got there first. Beginning with a burst of feedback and precision, percussive riffing, this excellently produced three-and-a-half tracker trades in pummelling, groove-heavy, stop-start shoutage at the intersection of Pantera-esque metal and hardcore, expertly tailored to get audiences moshing deliriously. Crucially, HYP clearly recognise that you need a really good drummer to stop this stuff dissolving into sludge, no matter how crushingly heavy the guitars may be. If they can pull it off live, they're onto a winner. (Robin Askew)
www.myspace.com/honouryourpain Copyright Robin Askew 2011
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