The debut album from Long Island-born five-piece is about to land and trust me, you need to get on this.
Getting the generic review stuff out of the way, the album is made up of 11 tracks, but that is the end to the generic structure of this album.
The mathcore/hardcore/metalcore chaotic blend is as mad and unpredictable as the world we live in. As soon as I pressed play it slapped me that this is exactly how scattered my brain is and maybe that’s why it has hooked me so much.
The aggression that is involved in this album is something that everyone can relate to, with frustrations running at a potential all-time high in the world and the need to try and make some sort of sense of the madness is exactly the emotions that that transmitted through the speakers.
It is not just all-out aggression, the melodies are thought-provoking and a complete contrast to the brutality that is expelled, again in many ways reflecting the human emotions that I experience, and I am sure (I hope) that many others experiences.
There are influences of Deftones thrown in and you can definitely hear that Billy Rymer from The Dillinger Escape Plan is now drumming with this band as the blend of that erratic, yet calming sound just grabs you.
The guitars are brilliantly aggressive but soothing, the drums are crashing all around you with what can sound like no specific structure and the vocals match abrasiveness with hauntingly beautiful.
It is clear that thoughtcrimes are not wanting to fit into a sound or genre, they are happy to just smash them all to pieces and pick up the bits that feel right and fuck me, they have found a stunning delivery of a complex puzzle.
Altered Pasts is the album that I didn’t know that I needed in my life and thoughtcrimes is the band that may just alter many presents and futures with Altered Pasts.
Albums like this are the reason that I offer to review albums and will often look toward the lesser-known bands as I look to broaden my horizons.
thoughtcrimes haven’t just opened my eyes, they have blown them wide open and now chaos in my mind has a soundtrack!
Altered Pasts may be my find of 2022 and I have pre-ordered the album before finishing this review!!
Ed Ford
Altered Pasts will be released Friday August 26th 2022 via Pure Noise Records.
Altered Pasts track list:
1. Panopticon
2. Mirror Glue
3. Keyhole Romance
4. New Infinities
5. Altered Pasts
6. Dare I Say
7. Hai Un Accendino
8. Conscience On Tilt
9. The Drowning Man
10. Deathbed Confessions
11. Lunar Waves
Altered Pasts is set for release on the 26th of August 2022 via Pure Noise Records. Album pre-orders, including several limited-edition vinyl variants and a CD, as well as digital pre-saves, can be found here: https://lnk.to/thoughtcrimes_
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