Bigfoot is alive and well, and living in south Florida. And by Bigfoot, I mean the sound and spirit of one of metallic hardcore’s greats, BURIED ALIVE. Miami’s DEAD WEIGHT channel the “Scott Vogel Experience” in full on We’ve Seen Better Days, a 12 song full-length that instills the fear of pit-driven beatdowns and unyielding lyrical invectives. Far from being a pack of meatheads however, DEAD WEIGHT merely want their scene back from those who have caught on for a short ride and from all of the “poets” who have led things astray. Between the bulldozing guitars and quake-worthy percussion, DEAD WEIGHT’s growling vocalist clobbers bands with no message in their music, encourages the addicted to fight their vices, and asks the scene rhetorically to examine the plague of “blanks faces” with “mouths filled with so much to say.” No – We’ve Seen Better Days isn’t a forced trip down the path of personal righteousness, but DEAD WEIGHT aren’t content waiting for society to come around and amend some of its most glaring flaws. We’ve Seen Better Days is as heavy as a bank vault and the band’s musicianship and topical focus is just as solid. The metallic hardcore sound of years past hasn’t sounded this good in quite some time.

Double or Nothing

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