Louisville bruisers annihilate everything in their wake.

Coliseum - No Salvation
Posted by Rachel Lux on 26-Feb-08 @ 01:59 PM

[4/5]
There's an unwritten law in the music world that if you ever pick up a CD with a layout featuring a bunch of skeletons riding motorcycles, you pretty much have to buy it. Luckily, the music on Louisville, Kentucky, hardcore trio Coliseum's latest disc is as impressive as the layout and brings the band's brand of Integrity-meets-Black-Flag-influenced hardcore to new levels of sonic destruction. No Salvation's greatest strength is the way Coliseum manage to eschew hardcore's brain-numbing formulas by injecting their calculated blasts of aggression with a welcome tinge of melody on tracks like "Defeater." However, that doesn't mean the band have gotten soft-and if tracks like "White Religion" make you long for an era when punk was dangerous, well, you just need to re-watch American Hardcore. (RELAPSE) Jonah Bayer


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