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The crushing and pummeling of the title track, as well as the opening track "Come And Get Some" are standard hardcore tone, times and structures infused with healthy doses of metallic crunch. Karl and Mad Joe, on dual vocals, deliver the punch and panache, while Richie and Mav give the chug and distortion on guitar. And Battle holds down the drum kit. The unit cohesively takes you through a decade of styles (with the exceptions of grunge and emo), and manages to make it all work. The heavy aggression of hardcore is their mainstay, but they have more than enough balls to try new things. Veering about as far away from the standard HC sound as you can is the tune "Wash Away," a beautiful acoustic number sung in a clear beautiful voice that belies the viciousness of its message, and "I'll Wait," another acoustic number of unparalleled beauty and emotional sincerity. Beauty and acoustics in hardcore? You bet, and that's not all that Krutch has up its sleeve. Jumping genres is nothing for these seasoned veterans. The gut-wrenching "Mother" combines hardcore with hip-hop influences to illustrate the pain and longing of a child who lost his family in a car accident, while the equally heart-shredding "Wrong Man" uses the same structures to scream the pain felt from the loss of a best friend. Ending the album, after the final cut "Destination," is a little surprise of a song that says it all: "We've been playin' hardcore for a lot of years/We don't ask for shit and we shed no tears." And that is what Krutch is really all about.

	KRUTCH WHATEVER IT TAKES I SCREAM	LINKS: krutchbfl.com iscreamrecords.com
	Hailing from Pennsylvania, Krutch is one of the hardest working and hardest jamming bands in the world of hardcore. Beginning in the late ‘80s, they have relentlessly pursued their passion for aggressive music with no apologies to anyone. Their most recent release, Whatever It Takes, is a 13-track odyssey through every emotion, style and sound in the hardcore/metal vocabulary.
The crushing and pummeling of the title track, as well as the opening track "Come And Get Some" are standard hardcore tone, times and structures infused with healthy doses of metallic crunch. Karl and Mad Joe, on dual vocals, deliver the punch and panache, while Richie and Mav give the chug and distortion on guitar. And Battle holds down the drum kit. The unit cohesively takes you through a decade of styles (with the exceptions of grunge and emo), and manages to make it all work. The heavy aggression of hardcore is their mainstay, but they have more than enough balls to try new things. Veering about as far away from the standard HC sound as you can is the tune "Wash Away," a beautiful acoustic number sung in a clear beautiful voice that belies the viciousness of its message, and "I'll Wait," another acoustic number of unparalleled beauty and emotional sincerity. Beauty and acoustics in hardcore? You bet, and that's not all that Krutch has up its sleeve. Jumping genres is nothing for these seasoned veterans. The gut-wrenching "Mother" combines hardcore with hip-hop influences to illustrate the pain and longing of a child who lost his family in a car accident, while the equally heart-shredding "Wrong Man" uses the same structures to scream the pain felt from the loss of a best friend. Ending the album, after the final cut "Destination," is a little surprise of a song that says it all: "We've been playin' hardcore for a lot of years/We don't ask for shit and we shed no tears." And that is what Krutch is really all about.
----Christine Natanael