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    Wisdom In Chains - The God Rhythm
    Released by: Fast Break! Records
    Released on: June 16th, 2015.
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    Wisdom In Chains, hailing from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, are releasing their fifth full length album (their first since 2012's The Missing Links) next month on Fast Break! Records, their first for the label. Entitled The God Rhythm, like a lot of their material the record mixes up a lot of different sounds and styles and influences while still staying true to the band's punk and hardcore roots. These guys have been around since the early 2000s so they've paid their dues at this point and what started as a side project way back when has definitely gone on to earn a name for the members of the band - vocalist Mad Joe Black, bass player Evan, Richie Krutch and Mav on guitars and new drummer Luke Rota (ex-Roger Miret and The Disasters, Stigma).

    People Die starts the album off with a weird psychedelic style intro that builds quickly, with a Latin voiceover underneath it, into some pretty thundering hardcore. Black's vocals are sick here, and this is absolutely the right way to kick off an album full of aggressive, ass-kicking crossover done right. Right away we notice the production is slick but not overdone and that the band is in very fine form sounding tighter than ever.

    From here, we segue into When We Were Young, a look back at the younger days of a punk getting used to adulthood and all of the struggle and strife that it life entails when you try to build yourself up. It's an inspiring song, as introspective as it is. Resonate, at just seconds past the one minute mark, is a blistering blast of pure, uncut hardcore. No more, no less. It's pissed off, it's fast and by the time I finished writing these few sentences it was over, so I played it again and it was just as awesome the second time. How Far Will You Go is also a short one, under two minutes, starting off with a slow, brooding intro that morphs into a more aggressive piece with some great gang vocals. Songs To My Killer starts off with a blasty intro then hits a mid-tempo stride and stays there. Great drums from the new guy on this one. Thorn In Your Side gets back to the under two minute hardcore sound that the band does so well, and it might be the fastest, fiercest song on the album. At over four and a half minutes, Mathematica is on the long side of things. We get a somber guitar-laden intro over which Black's vocals eventually ride into. There's a tortured, angry, questioning tone to the singing, and when the rest of the band catches up and lays into it, this gets heavy, almost doomy in spots, but that hardcore groove is still very much a part of the song.

    The second half of the album continues what was set before it. Fatherless is another blaster running just over a minute and delivering a mainline dose of pissed off, sonic fury - good stuff, with a killer breakdown towards the end. Best Of Me pushes the three and a half minute mark with a fast, stripped down sound that'll have you singing along before it's over. It's almost anthemic though it never comes close to breaking the land speed record set forth by a few of the other songs on the recording. The title track is also the longest one here at just over five minutes. A strange spoken word intro with some mellow music playing underneath opens things up, the band's playing builds up underneath it and keeps going until things mellow out at the end. It's an instrumental track but one ripe with emotion that fits right in here with the rest of the songs and it's really well played.

    Closing things out, Violent Americans is a three minute boot to the head about the culture of violence that infects the United States. It's pretty poignant given recent current events and it's as socially relevant as you might expect. Joey Ramone is a track about the late, great, leader of one of the greatest bands of all time, a memory put to music about The Ramones and the man himself. Further proof that Joey's influence has not faded, and probably never will. Skinhead Gang is another angry, pissed off hardcore track rightfully taking aim at white power skinheads with as much righteous fury as you could hope for. And then it all ends with Outro, at just over two minutes, a brooding, crunching, thundering instrumental closer to what is, ultimately, just under forty minutes of hardcore/punk crossover played by a bunch of guys who put a whole lot of passion into their music.


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