Artist: Earth Crisis
Album: Salvation of Innocents
Source: Spotify
Pre-listening Notes: Okay, so I have been sick lately and now I have a lot of catching up to do. The good news is, I get to start with the new album by one of my favorite metallic hardcore (metalcore, whatever) bands. Earth Crisis has always been kind of polarizing, due to their persistent themes of animal liberation and straight edge. I think I remember reading that this album was going to only focus on the themes of animal liberation, which suits me better than the straight edge songs, but truthfully, I like those too. I've been pretty alright with the last couple releases, after they got back together. Bad news on this, I heard there are some very Slitherish parts on this album, which was the album they put out right before breaking up the first time. Hopefully the Slither parts are kept to a minimum.
Initial Reaction: This first song, De-Desensitize was one of the songs I think they released as a preview. The song starts out fast and then has a pretty great breakdown about 45 seconds in. This fits right along with pretty much any Earth Crisis release out there. It's got a heaviness and you Karl sounds like he's still really pissed that all animals are not free from captivity.
Random Thoughts: Another song that starts out fast with some quick riffing. Out of the Cages definitely has to be heavy on their animal themes. Okay, the song Shiver has a weird part in it, but otherwise is pretty brutal. If that is the worst of the parts that I had read about, I'm totally okay with this. So far, through four songs, this is pretty awesome. Alright, Razors Through Flesh, ups the heaviness on the moshier part. And another less than super heavy party creeps it head into the sixth song, Depraved Indifference, which has it's heavy moments too. Okay, more and more weird singy parts keep peaking in to these songs as the album wears on. But then songs start like The Pallid Surgeon and it's real brutal and it makes me want to go and break the cages open of every imprisoned animal ever. The album closes pretty heavy.
Final Reaction: Overall, this was pretty great. This will never be Destroy the Machines or Gomorrah's Season Ends, but it's also almost two decades after both of those albums have been released and it's okay for Earth Crisis to do something slightly different. I could have done with less singing, but it wasn't enough to completely negate the heavy and brutal parts. Cool record, probably one I can sing along to without looking stupid. I'll listen to this again.
Final Grade: 7.5/10
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