Spitfire
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\ Spitfire \ Self-Help \ Label: Goodfellow Release Date: 02/28/06 \ |
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Virginia Beach’s Spitfire returned to the metal/hardcore scene just under a year ago, playing old songs with a veteran lineup. 12 months later their new LP is out, and a few personell changes have taken place. If you catch the band live any time soon you’ll see Ian Sabo (from VB’s The End of the Universe) on bass, and members of Norma Jean filling out the local band’s five-piece status. As a Norma Jean detractor I admit that such offilliations typically alarm me, but at a first listen I’m relieved that Spitfire seem to be striving more for a mid-to-late-90’s style of metallic hardcore than the current mediocre strain of the metalcore virus. Hints of Converge, Deadguy, and even Cursed lay between their riffage these days. There’s a hint of the hips-out attitude you might expect from a band that has shared so much with Richmond’s glam-masters Scarlet, but certainly not enough to detract my attention from what are genuinely badass riffs. Some of the songs are solid as wholes, but the cohesiveness isn’t what so readily appeals to me in this instance. Spitfire have crafted 11 songs full of bitchin’ guitar and intense drumming, and that’s all I care about right now.
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For fans of Converge, Every Time I Die, Breather Resist, , and Some Girls
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Tracklisting:
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1. Meat Market
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2. Go Ape | mp3 |
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3. Life And Limb
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4. Dear John
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5. Leap Of Faith
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6. U.V. I.V.
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7. The Great White Noise
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8. Comfort
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9. The Suicide Cult Is Dead
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10. Kings Of The Food Chain
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11. OHM Driver
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