| The Syncope Threshold - End of the Beginning |
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When members of various dismantled bands come together the result is either great or extremely terrible. The Syncope Threshold managed to bring the best of their exes into a festering cesspool of raw power, aggression and melody. They are able to blend punk and metal in a way that can bring fans of metalcore, post-hardcore, and all those other perversions of genres together to dance and mosh to their hearts content. Young music fans today like their punk with a heaping of metal on the side, and for them this band will be quite tasty. Vocalist Joe Garcia can pull of the pop-punk vocals that turn on fans of Fall Out Boy but quickly transitions to a scream that could rattle the PA. The guitarists pull off riff after scorching riff and surely have carpel tunnel by now, but kudos to them for a “no pain no gain” ethic. The song “A Faceless Enemy” off of their 2007 album End of the Beginning has a heartfelt sung chorus of, “Follow me into the land / That I’ve only seen in my dreams” but quickly turns into rabid growls of “As I sleep so peacefully it enables me to reap / What I have sown, this faceless enemy.” When you think of new Cali bands, TST is the one that will make the others sound inferior.
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