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Orange county metalcore at it's finest

Frankenchrist | USA | 07/29/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The list of amazing bands signed on with Thorp Records keeps increasing with each passing month. In the past two years alone they have brought to you, the listener, bands like SCARS OF TOMORROW, MADBALL, BLOOD FOR BLOOD, THE NORTH SIDE KINGS, FOREVER IS FORGOTTEN (re-issue), HOW IT ENDS, PUNISHMENT, and now GONE WITHOUT TRACE from Orange County, CA. These are only a handful of an already impressive roster of metalcore styled bands. You can add GONE WITHOUT TRACE to that list as another extraordinary band with an incensed temperament and the heartiness of a caged lion. They employ some of the most dizzying, thickened breakdowns, red-hot searing vocals and an unblemished coordination of rhythms. This aurally abusive affair does not concede or diminish in intensity at any point throughout the record. What's impressive about such a record is that you aren't battered for the sake of being beaten because of how technically astute the development of the songs are. You can follow along in their path of destruction without feelings of it being excessive or too weighty. The ability to master such a task of symmetry on both the aggressive and accuracy front is something many have tried their hand at but inevitably failed. Conquering an impediment such as that in their produced CD leaves them with the one aspect of their music to be judged-a live show. If they play live nearly as well as their CD sounds, then there is nothing but success ahead of them in the future. If your list of "need-to-have" CD'S for 2004 doesn't include GONE WITHOUT TRACE then it's time to add it to the list (and put it on the top).

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