The Belgium\/Netherlands punk quintet returns after an impressive 10\u201d EP in 2017. Here, This Means War proves on their debut album that they are absolutely one of the most exciting outfits in today’s punk rock scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy We Fight\u201d starts the listening with driving guitars, a fiery rhythm section, and melodic vocals guiding the way as the anthemic setting unfolds with a hard hitting yet very tuneful formula, which follows into the bouncy, blue collar punk sounding \u201cPressure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moving along, the playful bass lines and contagious gang vocals help make the charged \u201cHang ‘Em High\u201d one of the best here, while \u201cThe Unseen\u201d recruits a punk ‘n’ roll approach with ‘woh oh ohs’\u00a0 backing the vocals. Side A ends with \u201cOff With Their Heads,\u201d a cover of a tune by The Old Firm Casuals, where they nearly touch on pop-punk with their street punk and Oi! influences at the surface.<\/p>\n
Side B is just as luminous, and it offers the percussively strong \u201cGreed Is Out,\u201d the soaring and heartfelt \u201cWhat Are Friends For,\u201d and the fist-pumping fun of \u201cI Found The One.\u201d The LP ends on \u201cForever,\u201d which encompasses everything This Is War is about: power, melody, authenticity, and a thriving punk rock spirit.<\/p>\n
Comprised of members of Discipline, Superhero, Convict and Hidden Guns, This Means War brings together their collective strengths, which collide with precision, intensity, and melodic unity. The listen brings to mind legends like Cock Sparrer or The Bouncing Souls, and even Old School American Hardcore, too.<\/p>\n
Listening to Heartstrings<\/i> brings us back to the first time we heard The Crew (<\/i>7 Seconds) <\/i>or even lesser known punk albums like Smoke Or Fire’s This Sinking Ship<\/i>, and much like those classics, it’s a listen that will be relevant for decades to come and will sound as perfect than as it does now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10401],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-45681","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-this-means-war","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45681"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}