By:
Ernesto Aguilar
Album Type: Full-length
Date Released: 22/09/2017
Wooaaargh
Geist's
debut, "Disrepair," sees the quartet alternating effortlessly between
genres. Its opening song, "Painkillers," is cut from a strongly crust
punk cloth. It is straight up savage from frantic start to grinding finish. These entries give the listener just the
right amount of menace and fury.
"Disrepair" CD//DD//LP track listing
1.
Painkillers
2.
Dear World…
3.
Services Rendered
4.
Eyeless Needle
5.
Fiction Souls
6.
Inkblot Lives
The Review:
Hardcore
and metal will always have a kinship, arguably. There are more than a few great
crossovers and bands inspired by both styles. In Geist –
of the United Kingdom, and not to be mistaken with the German and Israeli
groups bearing the same name – you get music that is not afraid to embrace
both, and do it impressively.
Geist's
debut, "Disrepair," sees
the quartet alternating effortlessly between genres. Its opening song, "Painkillers," is cut from a
strongly crust punk cloth. It is straight up savage from frantic start to
grinding finish. The second and third tracks, "Dear World…" and "Services
Rendered" respectively, come at you with a brawny extreme metal
undertone. They're tremendous in terms of quality and vocals. These entries as
well as the fourth and fifth, the hardcore "Eyeless
Needle" and "Friction
Souls," give the listener just the right amount of menace and fury.
And while Geist foreshadows its sound well on digital,
disc and wax, you can almost imagine a sound this large needs to be experienced
live.
Geist is most assuredly one of the better
young hardcore/punk bands with tinges of metal you may hear this season. Keep
your fingers crossed that the band can make it sometime to the States.
"Disrepair"
is available here
