COLISEUM
No Salvation
(Relapse)

TERHEN
Eyes Unfolded
(Firebox)

OXBOW
The Narcotic Story
(Hydra Head)

THESE ARE:
Scare Tactics
(Hold True)

TOMAHAWK
Anonymous
(Ipecac)

CAPITAL
Homefront 

(Revelation)

GET BACK UP
Weathering the Storm

(Organized Crime)

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Good to know that Revelation Records is still alive. There were no news in their front for quite a while and I started to think maybe they had imploded. Too bad this record doesn’t truly shine or kicks ass or pushes you up against the crowd gorilla style. For all effects Capital are a Long Island hardcore band that plays melodic hardcore; by that I mean they mix up all the burly and bully-like attributes of the genre with plenty of melodies, which mostly come in the vocal delivery.  The execution is quite flawless; the guitars of Robert  McAllister do not rely on chugga-chugga or boring ass overdone breakdowns. Don’t get me wrong; there is plenty of that generic thing in Homefront, but what straight up hardcore record doesn’t have it in it? Robert though has a few tricks up his sleeve; he is quite aware that his guitars have six strings and that the neck of it is long like that so that your fingers can run through it.

The other strength and weakness of the band is vocalist Thomas Corrigan, who in the band’s MySpace Page is listed as being the ‘bald asshole’. Anyway, his got the pipes of a Spanish bull. Or at least, that’s how I imagine a Pamplona bull would sound like had they been blessed with human vocal chords. I say he is also the weakness, because he definitely has the range of a very good vocalist - on “Gold Coast” (and a few other moments) he actually sings and you know what? he can - but mostly he adopts the posture of your typical New York Hardcore vocalist, which he is anyway, but that’s my point to make.  He isn’t strange to melody, so this bald asshole and Robert sort of compliment each other; while they drop their Long Island stories about procrastination, dead children and what have you. I am really not one to dig deep into lyrics, but I think I heard some pretty heavy Christian overtones, which appeals to some but makes no difference whatsoever to me. Also, they make a good point on the third song “Crossroads”, which I actually completely agree with.

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