EP Review: Matriarchs - The Shape of C#NT$ to come (2021)

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Matriarchs - The Shape of C#NT$ to come
Release Date: October 05, 2021
Label: Knucklehedz Inc
Format: Digital
Length: 20:30
Genre: Hardcore / Nu Metal
Origin: Los Angeles, CA, USA

 Last October, LA’s Matriarchs released their amazing album “Year of the Rat” which pleased me a lot. Read the review here. Now, in the year of the buffalo, Matriarchs are back with their newest work “The Shape of C#NT$ to come” which features seven new kick-ass metallic Hardcore tracks by Ben Levi, Carlos Pagan and K Enagonio, as well as a guest appearance by Jarren Benton.

If you loved “Year of the Rat” for its inexorable soundscapes, “The Shape of C#NT$ to come” will blow your mind. On their new album, the Californian band is notching up their performance in multiple ways. The brutality of the metallic riffs is way more intense than before, the Hardcore breaks are even harsher, and finally even the melodic passages of the songs have been improved by a lot.

The song ‘Shadow Work’ is a great example of the rough and yet sophisticated songwriting that Matriarchs provide us with. Massive riffs sharp like razorblades are connected by a Mathcore-like transition and burst into a brachial Metalcore breakdown. This album is full of surprises. Despite all the brutality, vocalist K Enagonio masterfully adds clean vocals to the soundscape when not screaming at the top of the lungs. Those melodic lead vocals remind me of early Fear Factory, while the final track ‘EdgeLorde’ is a powerful Rapcore hymn for fans of acts such as Such A Surge, or Gebrüder Manns.

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