Daymares "Can't Get Us All"

Daymares, with less than a full year's existence, have managed to record a masterpiece of back-to-the-wall fighting intensity -- such as when cornered by a city block of violently frothing zombies, nothing but pitchfork in hand. This is the audio PCP that finally validates the Reading Rainbow promise, "I can do anything."

Daymares' deft combinations of thrash, punk, and hardcore has a Planes Mistaken For Stars' roughness and viscosity, but an accentuated gruff metal edge and unrelenting last-stand adrenaline, not entirely unlike Hour of the Wolf. The sound is oppressive, claustrophobic, as the guitars sputter and roar like a lawnmower fighting through jungle and the drums rattle like artillery, the bass a heavy humidity. Vocalist Pat sounds like he's bug-eyed and red-faced, screaming through the pain of unexpectedly birthing through the asshole. (That's 100% compliment, by the way.)

When I listen to Can't Get Us All I understand what it's like to be one of those people who walks around with furtive eyes and a perpetual scowl. And it feels awesome, except that it confirms the delighted to be dismal are thinking only about punching you with bricks and kicking your kneecaps out the backs of your legs. (And maybe, to really rub in the fact they just, with a leaping 2-footer, crippled you, make you kick yourself in your own balls with your now free-swinging lower legs.)

If you're too stubborn to spend $10 for an audio experience as stunning as genocide, may you be dismembered by a Daymares-energized instrument of destruction.

Brutal and catchy, brilliant: Daymares - "Almost There".

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