Reproacher began in late 2009 in Cheyenne , Wyoming Salt Lake City Denver US
“Nothing to Save” their second full length dropped in June 2013 and the band’s
misanthropic sophomore release delivered 11 merciless tracks of metallic
hardcore mixed with rumbling blasts of low-end vocal snarls. “Nothing to
Save” was recorded in 4 days during January 2013 in Salt
Lake City by Andy Patterson (Gaza
Fast forward three years and
split 7 later, Reproacher would
return with their third full length, “Nature’s Bastard” an album where huge,
awkward riffs dominate the landscape and their ugly, discordant racket is
reminiscent of Converge at their nastiest.”Nature’s
Bastard” is a mighty offering, a captivating combination of savage
intensity and considered dynamics, but today we’re rewind the clock 4 years to
the day and revisiting an album that exposed THE
SLUDGELORD to this amazing band, a band you’d be a fool to miss
second time around. So if you missed it
the first time, be sure to remedy you error by checking out our review of “Nothing
to Save” in full below. Reproacher
breeds hate and disease through sonic decimation.
By: Richard Powley
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 11/06/2013
Label: Self Released
“Nothing to Save” is a remarkable
album, marrying grind, crust, sludge and hardcore, yet never failing to provide
anything other than caustic forward momentum. The inclusion of more subdued
moments adds wonderfully to the emotional weight of the lyrics whilst also
giving the record great replay value. Basically it rules.
“Nothing to Save” DD track listing:
1. Intro
2. Casemate
3. Sophists
4. Averse Arrest
5. Ballast
6. Marginal Being
7. Repose
8. The Champion is Fucked
9. A New Dark Age
10. Crippled Wolves
11. New Skin
2. Casemate
3. Sophists
4. Averse Arrest
5. Ballast
6. Marginal Being
7. Repose
8. The Champion is Fucked
9. A New Dark Age
10. Crippled Wolves
11. New Skin
The Review:
I’m
going to go ahead and admit I had never heard of Cheyenne , WY
I
am now a massive fan of Cheyenne ,
WY
“Nothing to Save” contains 11 crusty,
sludge fuelled hardcore tracks, overflowing with bile and rage. The fact that Reproacher
wouldn’t sound out of place on a bill with Cursed, Full of Hell, Baptists et al is big praise
indeed, but one the band wholeheartedly deserves with this release.
As
soon as Intro’s pummelling build up is complete, Reproacher lurch into “Casemate”,
complete with Colohan-esque distorted vocals, short grind bursts, dissonant
breaks and a propulsive tempo, with the latter three setting the band apart
from the many Cursed
copyists formed in their wake. Further across the first part of the album, Reproacher
fuse elements of d-beat, sludge, hardcore and Converge style tempo changes and
dissonance into a disgustingly cohesive whole.
With
“Ballast”,
the band has crafted a perfect centrepiece to the album. Slowing things down
ever so slightly and giving more emotional weight to the bleak and desolate
lyrical content, the track ends with a plaintive, mournful riff bringing the
first half of the album to a suitably grim climax.
“Marginal
Being”’s
downtempo, doomy intro belies the tracks surge into furious hardcore, whilst “The Champion is Fucked” tells of the
treachery often born of greed and ambition over a furious amalgam of grind and
d-beat hardcore. “Nothing to Save”
closes with “New Skin”, opening with a slow feedback laden riff that
wouldn’t sound out of place coming from Manatees, before settling into a calmer
passage that’s ends the record in an unexpectedly thought provoking manner.
“Nothing to Save” is a remarkable album,
marrying grind, crust, sludge and hardcore, yet never failing to provide
anything other than caustic forward momentum. The inclusion of more subdued
moments adds wonderfully to the emotional weight of the lyrics whilst also
giving the record great replay value. Basically it rules.
