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Preying Hands, Canadian Melodic Hardcore (ex-Ballast) as part of their European are coming all the way to Ireland to play 4 gigs with the mighty Easpa Measa this October.
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I would recommend Preying Hands to anybody, their LP "Through The Dark" is savage
Here is a review of their LP "Through The Dark" released by Contraszt!
"A piece of information that passed by me unnoticed is that Ballast is no more. This happened when they returned home to Canada after their European tour in 2006, so it was some time ago and is probably not news to anyone else though. The reason I’m talking about Ballast here in this review is because not all wanted to quit, so three out of five members decided to recruit new muscle and start Preying Hands instead – and now their debut has been landed.
Musically I find this to be very similar to Ballast, which leads me to believe that it was the people that did the most song writing in Ballast that started Preying Hands. That Spoke remained on vocals isn’t exactly making this comparison very far fetched either as she has a great voice that’s easily recognizable with the raspy and melodic delivery. Musically they offer speedy punk rock that tends to lean towards hardcore, and not the other way around too often as was the case with Ballast, with a melodic nerve passing through all tracks. I sense some hints of melodic 90’s hardcore as well (Australian Blitz Babies anyone, or is that just me being a victim of comparing female fronted bands?), but just the right amount that’s not too much.
The material on this LP is quite evenly balanced and while it as a whole holds up as a solid record it’s also a weakness as there are tracks that goes by without grabbing my attention too much, but then there are stuff like “Clues”, “Know don’t say” and “Sinking” that are impossible not to get sucked into. The overall impression is that that there could have been a few more peaks, but the ones that do exist are good enough to make it an album to recommend for those into speedy and melodic (hardcore) punk rock."
Krogh – March 27, 2010
