It's floating right around 100 degrees in Baltimore as I write this. Yet, I've managed to find something even hotter. Atonement, a metallic hardcore horde out of Connecticut, recently dropped In Search of Divinity, a 2-song anvil.
From the same bloodline that produced such stalwarts as 100 Demons, Death Threat, and Hatebreed; Atonement finds equal footing in past glory as they do in the burgeoning heavy Renaissance curated by CT Hate Records, among others.
Currently wrecking the States on the aptly dubbed "Summer of Fear 2" tour with Typecaste, Tourniquet, and Foreign Hands; the Northeasterners sit firmly rooted in the family tree of heavy hardcore.
"Equal parts '90s metalcore and street-level pummeling, they're as comfortable stopping on a dime as they are penning an impossibly brutal whirlwind of a breakdown."
Even the artwork is telling... the gorgeously rendered cover by Dillon Perino recalls both Disembodied and Bloodlet, both bands who'd happily have hit the road with this CTHC crew:
Despite it's sub 6-minute runtime, it's loaded with down-tuned stomp, brutalizing beatdown passages, and throat shredding vocals sure to invoke the mosh. Crisp and tastefully recorded by Len Charmichael (Dissent) at Landmine Studios, In Search of Divinity begs forgiveness from none.
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