Sometimes, out of left field, even electro-industrial beats (as in “The Pain of Parting”) amplify the convulsive effect of the rhythms - and then streams of dissonant melody emerge to sweep you away on the cresting wave.Īnd throughout, Chad Ruhlig’s powerful, testosterone-injected vocals fire away like an artillery barrage. Breakdowns drop like concrete blocks and trigger the headbang reflex down in the reptile stem of your brain.
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Pulsing rhythm guitars flash back and forth between your left and right ears in the mix, and surge with bursts of power and staccato hammering. In a nutshell, Valediction delivers hook-heavy hardcore with enough melodic riffing to plant the songs firmly in your memory.Ĭlanging guitars and bass punch hard, somewhere down in your lower GI tract. They recorded that debut album with Zeuss ( Hatebreed) at Planet Z in Hadley, MA, and it was released on May 25th by Rise Records. The band’s line-up includes two of the defectors from For the Fallen Dreams, frontman Chad Ruhlig and bass player Joe Ellis, as well as BYD’s Bubble Patrick on second guitar. )īut all these guys have found a new home in Legend. (more after the jump, including a song and tour dates. And we were equally disappointed by the defection of band members from another repeat-play favorite of ours, For the Fallen Dreams. We were further chagrined to learn that BYD bassist Aaron “Bubble” Patrick left the band last fall. We’ve written before about our disappointment in Bury Your Dead‘s change in musical direction since the departure of vocalist Mat Bruso and his replacement by Myke Terry.
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And in the case of this metalicized hardcore band from Michigan and their recently released debut album Valediction, they abso-fucking-lutely do. So, you might ask, what the fuck does that have to do with metal? And we would answer: If you’re a metal band and you pick the name “ Legend,” you better have the “stuff” to back it up. When a pitcher is on his game, keeping batters off the bases and cruising through a low pitch count, the manager or some teammate will be quoted as saying, “he had good stuff tonight.” And when a pitcher gets shelled and removed without going at least five innings, you can bet someone will say, “he didn’t have good stuff.” Hey, they don’t pay those dudes for their public speaking skills. It can refer to the speed of the ball, the location of the pitch as it crosses the plate, the guile of the pitcher in varying the pitches from batter to batter - basically, everything that goes into keeping hitters off balance and generating outs. If you’re a baseball fan, you’re familiar with the term “stuff.” And if you’re not? Well, inarticulate baseball players, managers, and fans (like us) use that term to refer both to what pitchers are capable of throwing and how they actually perform in games.