11/10/2023 0 Comments Knocked loose straight edge![]() ![]() Its stark, nightmarish vision brings out untold lyrical detail and reaffirms – as if reaffirmation were required – that Knocked Loose are in command of far more than skull-caving blunt force. The accompanying monochrome animation from Swedish filmmaker Magnus Jonsson should be considered compulsory viewing. Assuming the viewpoint of an unnamed protagonist who loses his partner to a horrible car-wreck before spiralling through the circles of depression, guilt and unhinged desperation, the songs’ central concept is pivotal. Indeed, as a rumination on grief and its consumptive effects across a perfectly-measured six tracks in 21 minutes, ATITFOL is frontman Bryan Garris’ most narratively potent and evocatively skin-crawling achievement to date. Forced To Stay and Contorted In The Faille swerve off into the opaque unknown, repurposing concussive sound to more soulfully probing effect, while opening up the record’s putrescent tale of woe. God Knows cranks the severity, shifting focus from physical to psychological scars across a scourging soundscape that culminates in an inspired, unsettling sample of The Beach Boys’ God Only Knows. ![]() Guttural hardcore mob Knocked Loose have perhaps one of the most terrifying musical tales of intoxication, with ‘Manipulator II” recalling a tale of a friend’s overdose and the immediate aftermath – an event that pushed frontman Bryan Garris back towards sobriety.īest lyric to shout at your pub-going mates: “I’m not straight edge, I’d just rather be sober / I’m never looking back I’m not looking for closure”Īnother track that uses the metaphor of sobriety as a means to dissect a romantic relationship, Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Sober’ compares sobriety to a break-up, referencing the oft-touted three month point (where your sobriety is supposed to really hit home).Cataclysmic opener Where Light Divides The Holler combines chest-crumpling hardcore and soul-searing death metal in characteristically thrilling fashion. A reminder that sobriety is a journey, not a destination.īest lyric to shout at your pub-going mates: “If I can be an example of getting sober / Then I can be an example of starting over”Ī document of frontman Randy Blythe’s alcoholism, ‘King Me’ finds the modern metal icon confronting his destructive relationship with the drug, before flipping the situation on its head, and seizing control of his life once more.īest lyric to shout at your pub-going mates: “I’d been running away for so long / When I finally caught myself there wasn’t much left / The script’s last page is blank / And the medicine is gone” Initially coming off as self-flagellating tale of relapse, ‘Starting Over’ soon finds Macklemore instead embracing the opportunity to start again. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – ‘Starting Over’ ‘The Discipline’, from their game-changing debut ‘Destroy The Machines’, is no different – a thunderous statement of drink-and-drug-free intent.īest lyric to shout at your pub-going mates: “The key to self-liberation is abstinence from the destructive escapism of intoxication” The masters of vegan-straight-edge hardcore, Earth Crisis make no bones about their vice-free lifestyle. Red Hot Chili Peppers – ‘Under The Bridge’Ī festival anthem and guitar lesson staple, ‘Under The Bridge’ might get pints held aloft in fields worldwide, but it’s actually about Anthony Kiedis’ long-storied troubles with numerous addictions – ones which are detailed in his disarmingly frank autobiography, ‘Scar Tissue’.īest lyric to shout at your pub-going mates: “I don’t ever want to feel /Like I did that day” The closing track to Bring Me’s phenomenal ‘Sempiternal’ LP, ‘Hospital For Souls’ finds Oli Sykes addressing his past addictions with a cathartic and chaotic edge, frankly admitting how close he brought himself to complete dissolution.īest lyric to shout at your pub-going mates: “I can fear death no longer / I’ve died a thousand times.” Ironically, ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’’s “wake up / drank” refrain became something of a frathouse drinking anthem, despite Kendrick himself writing the song about his family’s struggles with alcoholism, and the peer pressure that comes with sobriety.īest lyric to shout at your pub-going mates: “If I take another one down / I’ma drown in some poison, abusin’ my limit.”īring Me The Horizon – ‘Hospital For Souls’ Kendrick Lamar – ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’ To the point that the first 3 bands don't sound like Knocked Loose you are correct but every band shouldn't sound identical you can have variation in metalcore but the basic building blocks need to be the same hardcore+metalmetalcore. Inclination formed just five years ago in 2017, and in the time since, the Louisville five-piece. Knocked Loose on the other hand beautifully combine thrash/death metal and hardcore. Best lyric to shout at your pub-going mates: “I don’t wanna be there calling / 4 o’clock in the morning” Inclinations ferocious straight-edge hardcore goes for the throat.
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