Crows – Better Off Dead LPCrows Better Off Dead LP "Crows are a metallic hardcore band that sound a lot like Lights Out! if the riffage were more contained. Oh, I know that sounds like a slam to those that know what I'm talking about but it is anything but. Crows is something that sounds like it has more focus. While Lights Out! churned out some amazing tracks over the course of their short history (Overload is still amazing to this day) Crows push forward with a sound that is

Dare you to disagree

Mixing knife-glint prettiness with leaden atonality the band come off somewhere between Corrupted and Thergothon

nothing drastic

This album seems like it would run for a standard 35-43 minutes but actually clocks in at just about 26 minutes which means not every track really gets the space it needs to fully flesh itself out

with honesty and vehemence

chopped-up and subject to treatments and effects

Dark and broodling

” which bruise

and abandoned when it is appreciated

BUSY SIGNALS

MORGUE calculate through blistering speed and grooves

loud noise travels on the expression (the same things I did)