This is less of a new direction than it is an evolution. Even the gruff vocals still layer the background, but it’s all been covered with a shiny new melodic coating.
This album blends the familiar with the foreign. Pounding drums, heavy guitar riffs and gruff vocals. Since their debut album in 2010, Hundredth has been known for their hardcore sound. So I put the album on and suddenly sat straight up in my chair. So when I breezed over the press release for Hundredth’s new album Rare, I saw much of the same lingo, nodded my head and thought, “uh-huh”. “This a departure for the band”, “…brave new territory…”, then it turns out to be the same old crap, but the lead singer bought a new hat or the guitarist grew a moustache. Every press release for a new album reads the same way.
