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100 Demons

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For those of you unfamiliar with 100 Demons, they play a tougher, harder edged variant of Jersey
style metalcore. That means tough guy lyrics about honor, loyalty, backing up your bros and a
generally pugilistic attitude towards your fellow man. All this running on top of bursts of
pummeling metallic hardcore intersected with crushing low end sludgy breakdowns. Sound like
fun?

Seriously, this is a punishing step up from their already accomplished debut. The sound here is
BIGGER and more brutal than their debut but that's only the half of it. It's hard to think this band
could come across as more hateful than their last record but this new album leaves them
unrivaled in the hatecore world. The breakdowns are simply colossal, the drums are air tight and
the vocals are seething with hatred. Put this all together and you have a band literally pushing the
outer limits of this genre into darker, more deadly terrain.

Like their last record this sucker is an anger filled ride from start to finish. There's no ballads, no
interludes, nothing to stop the torrent of hate spewing out of your speakers. While every song
here is satisfyingly similar in its approach the closer "Never Surrender Virtue" is the absolute
summation of the music and values of this band. Equal parts rage and violence wrapped in a
sincere loyalty to family, all delivered in an uncompromising blend of bass heavy breakdowns
and fierce hardcore.

All in all, this is the current king of the hill release for fans of hatecore/tough guy metalcore.
There's nobody even in the same league with these guys although another one of my favorites
How It Ends comes close. Still, this is the must have release for this genre.

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I think this band might be better then Hatebreed. In fact they are. Better writing, better guitar work along with insane vocals and machine gun drum sounds unlike any other of its musical kind!!!

Here is the bottom line. If you like Hatebreed, Killswitch, and other hardcore bands, this is the best the genre has to offer.

100 Demons should be bigger then Hatebreed. And if they are not any time soon, they need new management.

I'm into boating these days. Well, rafting really. There's been no surf, so my buddies and I have invested in some rubber rafts that we take out on the ocean. What this means is that I will probably drown and I hope I don't go to hell because then I would have to hang out with 100 Demons and these guys are seriously scary. While their sound reminds me of both Slayer and Hatebreed, they are certainly no derivative act. 100 Demons are capable of squeezing maximum power and savage imagery into every second of the twenty-six minute release; the whole effort dripping with unbelievably thick, massive crunches of noise. With tons of unresolved issues and unadulterated aggression, 100 Demons take out their tortured souls and mercilessly punish you with their heavy, horrifying sound. Huge thank yous are in order to producer Zeuss for making something that sounds like music, rather than putting out just another growl-fest.

Very good album . The sound and tracks. They have found a mix of aggressive music and singing that doesn't get too much when listening to the whole album. Some artists have the power and energy, but can't keep me interested for more than 1-3 tracks, I really like variation....100 Demons makes me wanna play some tracks twice on the same day- WOW !

Maybe the music gods are shining down on me or the planets are alighned just right. Whatever the case may be, another great band with marginal recognition (soon to be more) has fallen on to my lap. 100 DEMONS call their home base CT and have just released a hardcore album with a vast amount of metalic muscle under the Death Wish Records label. Imagine if you will a band who's sound has similarities to HATEBREED but with a slightly more crushing sound. Though the odds of finding a band who sounds even more aggressive and heart pounding than HATEBREED are small, 100 DEMONS are one of the few who can proudly say they have raised the bar in that catagory. With a voice that shatters the boundaries of baritone and a multitude of synchronized double base breakdowns, 100 DEMON'S recent offering will definitely appeal to any fan who loves hardcore music with metal overtones. Throw this CD into your player and crank up the base if you want to enjoy a full, rich, sonic boom of pleasure armed with harrowing precision and overwelmingly impressive musial composition. 100 DEMONS know how to use some of the industy standards for hardcore starts and stops but utlilized some serious amplitude to enhance the overall sound. In all honesty, there isn't one weak or sub-par track on the record, all of the cuts are strong with regards to creativity and power. To date, they are the most powerful sounding band to make a record this year among the lesser known bands. However, their noterieghty should change soon with a CD of this magnitude. This will be the one that puts them in every metal fans collective conscious.

finally the long awaited 2nd album from connecticut hardcore legends 100 demons has arrived!! but unfortunately, along with new songs comes new members. Bruce LePage (vocals)is no longer with the DEMONS, as well as Steve Karp (bass player). instead the demons are now joined with Pete Morcey (former Forced Reality vocalist) & Erik Barrett. you would think with all the time they had since there 1st album they would have put ALOT more effort into this album. trust me, the 1st album is OFF THE WALL MADNESS!! truly original & a masterpiece in my eyes. so, if you plan on buying a 100 demons cd, get the 1st album then get this one & you'll see what i mean. checkout other hardcore bands such as - subzero, hatebreed, merauder, sick of it all, burn, rorschach, citizens arrest, born against, & the list goes on.

This CD is just too inconsistent and doesn't deliver good riffs on a regular basis enough to really impress me. It opens with a nice little intro in the first track, but 100 Demons then seem to be settling into something they find quite comfortable to play, rather than really stretching themselves. There isn't one song here where I can just sit back and say "That was a great song!" Each song has some bits which I can pick out and say are good, but there are also bad parts to each one. It's an amazingly short CD, and with some of the songs sounding shockingly similar, it's very similar to Slayer's Reign in Blood. I'm not too fond of Reign in Blood because of its length and the fact that most of the songs are similar in sound, but I still quite comfortably prefer it to this.

When 100 Demons increase the speed it can sound great such as in Dying in My Own Arms, while Repeat Process is the song that manages to string together some good ideas the best. Less annoying vocals, some guitar melodies that you can still remember once the song has finished, and the first attempt at a little mini-solo, but it still has some breakdowns which sound like they've just been recycled from millions of other songs. By the time I reach the last few tracks though it feels like I've already heard all this before. It isn't consistent enough and it's far too short. There are some good ideas here, and if 100 Demons continue working on this they might produce something very good in future, but for now, this just doesn't impress me that much. Better luck next time.