An aptly named Overpower is the curb stomping Straight Egde hardcore band that Indianapolis has needed for quite some time. These three songs are one side of a soon to be released seven inch. And they are a four minute assault drenched in feedback, anger fueled vocals, unapologetic breakdowns, and a methodical churning of instrumentation. This is what hardcore should be; rough, assertive, direct, and bent on pushing back against the status quo. Suffer opens up the release to the caterwauling of feedback only to blast into full powerviolence mode. Once the breakdown hits Suffer swills with mid-tempo angst as the song ends in droning feedback morphing in to a two ton sludge riff. Mercy must be a conceptual hope for the next track. There is nothing merciful about this song. It's fifty two seconds of fury and feedback. The first twenty eight seconds or so are devoted to pure vitriol. As the song shifts gears the feedback signals the end with a bludgeoning of guttural vocals as the sledgehammer crashes down. XXXX is Overpower's longest and most punishing song of the three. It's a hateful piece of aural violence aimed at everyone's skull. XXXX blasts and rages as the song tightly shifts from riff to riff driving home the point: Overpower will dominate you. XXXX only slows to deliver the song's ending message: you're fucking dead. Indeed.
http://overpowerxxx.bandcamp.com/
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