A lot of the new songs have been worked on for well over a year. We jam them out for a while and it slowly comes together. Our writing style hasn't really changed since the start of the band. Jarred comes up with riffs and shows us via voice memo. You're welcome.Īs good as the Years of Rage EP was, the new LP is a cohesive, daring, and confident bunch of songs. Check it out below then grab it from Edgewood Records. Regulate has dropped it proper with In the Promise of a New Tomorrow, and, as expected, vocalist Angelo was kind enough to let me pester him with questions. (Photo: Rick Beaulieu)Īt just under a half hour, there's nary a wasted second. Regulate at the Warehouse, Syracuse, NY, 2018. A callout in the truest sense, it ends in a goosebump inducing "There's more if us, if there's a hell you'll burn." If there ever was a time for hardcore to be direct, challenging, and to smoke racists out of their foxholes, it's now. It's a staggering achievement and reaches it's zenith on "Wrong Side of History", a scathing and scholarly indictment of the fascist in the White House and his emboldened legions. Rife with all things earnest and poetic, it side-steps the banal trappings of traditional hardcore lyricism, instead shifting it's steely-eyed focus on self-improvement, rejection of ideology, refusing to be reduced to cattle, the trappings of power and infrastructure, and reclamation of identity. Harkening back to a time when I'd sit cross-legged on the floor, headphones on, poring through the lyric sheets, wide-eyed and empowered. Honestly, what made me fall for the record was the lyrics. It touches on post-hardcore in the earliest sense, a hardcore band infused with daring and melody. Though not sonically, their take on melodically inclined hardcore is thematically reminiscent of Turnstile or Higher Power, putting them in the company of hardcore royalty.
What follows is, to these ears, is the absolute fucking opus that is "Character Arc." I'm in danger of running out of superlatives here, but the cleanly sung vocals are a daring and undeniably successful turn, showcasing the deep rivers of adventure that flow within Regulate. In an album of high watermarks, the flood truly hits with "Unfinished Abandonment of Self," an ambient instrumental that bleeds into a sample simultaneously cosmic, searching, bleak, and life-affirming. Regulate at the Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA, 2017. As if it was ever in doubt that they did indeed have hands of gold, "Manos De Oro" and "48" only solidifiy the formula. Part of the album's charm is its immediate and necessary playback, a collection that demands multiple listens and feels instantly familiar upon relistening. & amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp lt a href=""& amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp gt In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow by REGULATE& amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp lt /a& amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp gt ġ0 seconds of opener "11:13" is an impossibly catchy earworm even before a word is uttered, inserting it's cyclone of a riff deep into my subconscious. The musicianship, while already formidable upon their genesis, has exploded into a machine capable of cranking out instant classis. brutality, yet the true inspiration seems to stem squarely from the intense, beating heart of the band themselves. There's an inherent respect for and deep admiration of classic NYHC in the give and take of bounce vs. I hear elements of Outburst, Killing Time, Breakdown, and even hints of Side By Side. It's a taut and intense batch of songs that revel in the celebration of hardcore's lineage and future. Having long lauded the LIHC straight edge troupe's 2016 Years of Rage EP, the new record, In the Promise of Another Tomorrow, has forcibly elbowed it's way squarely to the top of my year end top 10.Īt first glance, the record is top shelf hardcore fire done right and, perhaps, that'd be more than enough for me to sing it's praises. To say that I was ill-prepared for the new Regulate LP would be an understatement.
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