Brian Moss is like a musically-inclined cockroach – he arrives in many forms, and always keeps coming back, no matter the band name attached to his latest endeavor. The former THE GHOST and HANALEI frontman brings out the heavy with OLEHOLE, a mostly thunderous post-hardcore band that features Moss screaming, shouting, and delicately crooning, or some combination thereof. To the band’s credit, Holemole shows a great deal of variation in tempo, with conventional steadiness found on the appropriately named “Monuments of Motion,” a start/stop tooth-grinding effect on opener “Gatekeeper,” and near hypnosis on the tranquilizing guitar fest that is “40 43 74 00.” “Talk The Walk,” is the toast of Holemole – a song that runs nearly five minutes in length and conjures up both the big-riff fun of BLACK SABBATH and the swift, technical nuance of DRIVE LIKE JEHU. Whodathunkit? Most musicians seem to get soft as age, and ‘serious business’ settle in – Moss and the rest of OLEHOLE seem more than happy to ride against the grain.

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