Spain adds another outsider in list for a frontline seat in the post core category. Mastering of Allan Douches (Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge: if you don’t know them, then you’re reading something that doesn’t suit you) grants a certain quality and the distance from the most trendy metalcore sound. “Sleepless Every Night” is a trip within the extreme music in the intention to sow anguishing feelings during all the (short) track (less than thirty minutes). The album strikes at the first impact, asks for no elaborations or repeated listens. From the first minute of “The Rope” we’re crush against a concrete wall, that is debtor to both the absolutist conception of labels like Relapse or Victory, and to a hallucinated crossed version of the historical N.Y. core. With the result that in its best moments this album can be interpreted like a pretty good, sensed and raged mixture between the urban assault of Agnostic Front and the uncompromissory open hearted stoner of Raging Speedhorn, often hooking the gelid noise of Snapcase, or even some charming empty and full contrasts of the regretted Breach. And it’s this ability to sound like much and nothing, the most charming character of the young Spanish band. Summing up about the direction hardcore and metal are taking in 2008, I think it’s impossible to neglect the young generations, with Another Kind Of Death in pole position.

Flavio Ignelzi