Briefly subjected to a flurry of modest hype in that golden age before 'vicious hardcore' became a thing that yesterday's Comeback Kid fans were all into, will Chicago's bludgeoning Harms Way get the sort of broader reception now being afforded bands like Trap Them, Nails, Magrudergrind etc, or was their load blown far too early?We'll see, not right now - but in a few months when 'Isolation', the full-length follow up to 2010's 'No Gods No Masters' (seriously, how can you get away with that?), finally arrives to either apocalyptic trumpeting archangels or the sad, strangled honk of a clown on a unicycle. En route, though, there's 'Breeding Ground', the one-track tour 7" (on Closed Casket Activities, but also now up for download courtesy of the band themselves).
Oddly, grindcore reference points are forever quoted in reference to Harms Way - in truth, there's the ominous discordant intros of early Carcass, and the sort of crushing, crust-infused heaviness of Trap Them, Infest or Pulling Teeth, but the 'Breeding Ground' is as unmistakable hardcore as someone in sportswear doing a scissor kick while a roomful of sexually repressed, judgemental hypocrites all bellow words like 'together' and 'unity'. Pummelling and groove heavy, skirting the boarders of sludge like a more purposeful, though equally muscular Weekend Nachos, 'Breeding Ground' is a good solid dose of mirror-punching metallic hardcore.
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