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Wake The Giants - Hill Rd
Western Sydney pop punk mainstays Wake The Giants have proven their readiness to emerge from the cocoon of their local scene with ‘Hill Rd’, a new single which marks the highest point in the band’s career to date. Moving beyond the easycore formula that characterised their earlier work, the track is washed over with lashings of pop sensibilities and punctuating, memorable hooks set against driving powerchords and catchy lead guitar phrases. ‘Hill Rd’ shows a band at the top of their game, paving the way towards a bright, prosperous future at the forefront of the genre.
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Wake The Giants - Wake The Giants
On their debut release, Western Sydney pop punkers Wake The Giants have displayed their penchant for irresistibly catchy melodies and memorable guitar riffs peppered with explosive, hard-hitting breakdowns and considerably large nods to the sensibilities of hardcore and metalcore. The EP reflects an infectiously upbeat and positive vibe, exuded from a band who have refused to be overcome by tragedy and adversity and are poised to take the national scene by storm.
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We Were Promised Jetpacks - In The Pit Of The Stomach
We Were Promised Jetpacks make indie rock for people who usually wouldn't like indie rock. There are moments on this record that can be immensely heavy before changing to a melody driven, energetic verse, or beautiful ambient bridge, and whilst the flow of the album could be improved, this band seem to be embarking on something that could offer great things in the future.
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We Are The In Crowd - Best Intentions
Best Intentions is an album stacked full of fun, energetic and infectious tracks. While We Are The In Crowd may not be bringing anything to completely new to the genre, sound wise they have captured the fun, catchy elements of “pop” and the spunky attitude of “rock” and combined it in a way that makes a great debut album, and only promises bigger things from this young five piece in the future.
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We Came As Romans - Understanding What We've Grown To Be
With their second full length, We Came As Romans have delivered on the promise made by their previous release. They have again released a solid record full of catchy hooks, high energy instrumentation, perfect vocals (both screams and cleans) as well as some synth and string sections, group sing-alongs and quotable lyrics for good measure- all made in perfect We Came As Romans fashion. There is no denying that this is a We Came As Romans record, they have created their own distinct sound out of the metalcore mold, while still fitting so tightly in it. Not much has changed since the last record, the band have matured out of their teenage years, but all-in-all they aren’t doing anything too different.
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We The Kings - Sunshine State Of Mind
After hearing ‘Sunshine State Of Mind’ I personally will never bother listening to any future releases from We The Kings and it would not be surprising if whatever is left of the band’s fan base has the same reaction. Now we can only hope that even the radio is smart enough not to play this music.
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Winds of Plague - Against the World
'Against the World' is littered with some impressive musical moments that are deserving of praise. The band just need to learn to iron out the indifferent bits instead of just purely settling. 'Against the World' is a fierce, confident listen but is probably better served when isolating select tracks instead of listening to the album as a whole.
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We Are The Ocean - Go Now And Live
It's doubtful that those who enjoyed the band's first record will like 'Go Now And Live,' due to its vastly different sound. If you are going to make radio friendly rock music, at least make the songs disgustingly catchy so that people will not be able to resist them.
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War Hound - Return of the Hardstyle
This EP is in no way groundbreaking, but it is 9 entertaining minutes of some of the heaviest New York style hardcore heard in the last couple of years. Back this with catchy lyrics touching on heartbreak and betrayal amongst other things and you have yourself an EP that you will listen to mutiple times a day.
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We Came As Romans - To Plant A Seed
We Came As Romans have mainly made a paint-by-numbers metalcore record, however there are enough glimmers of outside the square thinking that hint there may be more to this band than 'To Plant A Seed' implies.