It’s all overseen by producer (and Knocked Loose guitarist) Isaac Hale, who makes a concussive cameo on the smashing Last Tango In Paris. As skilfully as he wrangles the concussive chaos of Sychophant, the 83 seconds of nihilism that comprise Nietzsche Is Dead or the Code Orange-alike spiralling industrial of Love’s Labor’s Lost, though, Wristmeetrazor’s sombre spark clearly originates from within.
Concluding with a sense of open-endedness rather than cataclysmic finality, the closing salvo of This Summer’s Sorrow II: Growing Old In The Waiting (a four-minute post-hardcore epic) and All The Way Alive (two minutes of woozy electro) hint at even more epic soundscapes on the horizon. Dark minds should strap in for an unbound spiral into the abyss.
Rating: 3/5
For fans of: Knocked Loose, Oathbreaker, At The Gates
Replica Of A Strange Love is released on June 11 via Prosthetic