TRACKLISTING
1. The Great Defector
2. The Deadend
3. Enigma
4. Herein The Problem Lies
5. Thankless
6. Where The Bodies Are Buried
7. Inhuman Nature
8. Eulogy
review by Jesse A Lambertson exclusively for BRUTALISM.com
It is good to see such a band, Seizure Crypt, on the scene at least because of their fairly creative angle to hardcore. I mean, I do hear Black Flag and Minor Threat when I hear this CD, HELLO MY NAME IS…MADNESS, butI hear Suicidal Tendencies most of all. It is not the guitar or the actual sounds in the music that jog my music-memory this way, it is the vocals. They dance that line, as have so many other more popular “hard music” bands in the last ten to thirteen years, between rap and hardcore/punk. My observation is no criticism, it is simply an observation. I am a fan of many of the bands that Seizure Crypt claims as their influences and muses: Murphy’s law, Minor Threat, and Pantera (I am only a miniscule fan of Pantera).
Seizure Crypt is from Queens, NY,NY,USA and they have stabilized themselves in the NY Hardcore scene. Their sound has that tight Minor Threat turn on a dim hardcore songwriting skill, but the clean metal yelling that makes me think of Suicidal tendencies’ “You Can’t bring me Down.” These guys do not play metal in the classic sense, but the guitars are fuller than any old school hardcore band ever played. The disparity in sounds is surely due to the change in technology and the way American culture pays for its band pieces now. I think there was a much more punk rock “cheap-ass” aesthetic and ideology in the days of the mid 1980s in American hardcore. Plus the band has obviously been exposed to a plethora of bands that barely either had barely any or no recordings at the time of the normal American hardcore. So all in all, I think Seizure Crypt has released a refreshing hardcore/punk CD in HELLO MY NAME IS…MADNESS and it is made for that scene through and through. Read their pages, you will see their intents.
Seizure Crypt
band@seizurecrypt.com
http://www.seizurecrypt.com
316 Productions
mikesos1@aol.com
http://www.316productions.com