3/18/2021 0 Comments Wage War Blueprints Torrent
This track really is sporadic and urgent, like a pre-schooler telling their teacher that theyre about to piss their pants.When seventeen-year-old Johnny has a bad day, he always knows he can turn to his trusty Blueprints and let the breakdowns melt away all of his teenage angst.Yet the problem with Wage War is thats all theyve ever really been good for.Their music has never provided that much substance, outside of Briton Bonds mental health-focused lyricism, as it musically serves as something akin to metalcore junk food: just an occasional, cheap listen for pure fun.
So with new album Pressure on the horizon, and a shiny change in sound, have Wage War broken the bars of the generic metalcore cage that theyve locked themselves into Well, no, not really. Its likely that Wage War honey-dicked their fans with Low and Who I Am as the first two singles, given theyre two of the only few heavy songs present. As the vast majority of Pressure instead sees Wage War diving into a done-a-million-times radio-rock, with songs like Forget My Name and Take The Fight sounding like B-sides from an early 2010s Three Days Grace album. However, there are moments where this sound does work for Wage War. Hurt carries strong, melancholic melodies over a twinkly, beautiful instrumental foundation, with a huge chorus and an amazing back-and-forth between Briton and guitarist Cody Quistad. Briton, who formerly stuck to screams on their other records, actually sings a lot on Pressure; a change-up that I Prevail also did with Trauma and it works well here too. He even takes over the majority of the vocal duties on the mediocre rock ballad Grave, which sadly, features one of the most irritating repetitions of lyrics in a refrain Ive ever heard: you will never change, over and over, again and again. He definitely should share this side of his voice moving forward, as it could one day do wonders for the dynamic of this bands sound. However, his vocal talents are quite bogged down by some tired melodies that come off as quite emotionless and stale. Cmon guys, give him an interesting hook and some meaningful lyrics and Im sure he could make some real magic with it. Which now brings me to the most laughable aspect of Pressure in my own mind, and thats the bottomless pit of meaningless one-liners and overused metaphors that Wage War have filled their lyrics with. The rather boring metalcore dressings and generic pop-electro that surround such lyrics also didnt help.). So many lines on this album seem like they were written to merely fit the larger rhyming scheme of any given track, rather than the actual meaning behind the actual bloody song. So then every song feels like it was written simply because it just simply had to be written. Its almost as if they were out of ideas and topics to write about, so some form of imaginary you or some fictional them was conjured up to be pissed at; the band trying to be relatable so that listeners can take ownership of these new songs and apply them to their own lives and experiences. Which will no doubt work.) Of course, Wage War has never been the best poets on past releases some might like that simplicity, though not me yet the lyricism on Pressure is the laziest its ever been. Well, no, hang on I actually do think that these lyrics have meaning to Briton and the band. Its just how theyre voiced how theyre conveyed to us as listeners that misses the mark and makes them sound and feel meaningless. As theres a level of specificity that is just missing here; a level of deeper ideas thats absent in place of what feels like quite generalized thoughts to appeal to the most basic and broadest market possible. Thats cynical, yes, but its laughable when Briton declares that no one knows low like I do on Low when so many of their fans connect with what hes screaming about in Wage Wars music. So yes, people do understand how he feels, as they feel it too, hence why theyre attracted to this bands music. Ghost is likely going to get crowds circle-pitting at all future gigs, with its massive feet-moving riffage and crushing breakdowns.
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