Homewrecker – Worms and Dirt

May 26, 2012 • A389 Recordings

More modern hardcore! Is it obvious yet that I can't get enough of the stuff? I hardly know anything about Homewrecker, but they're a relatively new band who are showing a lot of promise for a genre that might be a bit stagnant with some really neat sounds and styles.

Homewrecker's songs are filled with high-speed punk riffing combined with a super-heavy, chugging metal sensibility, sometimes switching back and forth between quick blasting and slow thrasy riffs. It's a neat combination—of course their sound is nothing necessarily original (I hear shades of Napalm Death in there, among other bands), but that doesn't mean they aren't creative with it. Despite the occasional slow tempos the songs are very fast-paced, so the band is always keeping the listener on their toes and it doesn't ever get boring. They also throw in the occasional despairing ambient bridge here and there just to keep the mood bleak, only to jarringly jump back into some of the angriest punk I've heard. (And that's jarring in a good way.)

And it's all over just as soon as it starts; even though Worms and Dirt has a relatively average runtime for a punk album at just over twenty minutes, there's so much to it that these guys could probably fill an album twice as full and it'd still be just as interesting. Homewrecker is definitely a band to watch and I'm eager to see where they go in the future.

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