INTEGRITY Those Who Fear Tomorrow LP

INTEGRITY Those Who Fear Tomorrow LP

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(Organized Crime)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
      Available once again from the folks at Organized Crime, this new vinyl reissue of Integrity's classic 1991 album of nihilistic metallic hardcore comes on colored vinyl and includes a download code and printed insert with new liner notes from guitarist Aaron Melnick. With it's striking sleeve art using apocalyptic imagery from both Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon, Those Who Fear Tomorrow stuck out like a tumor in the landscape of early 90s hardcore. Although the band name (and the band photo on the back of the record) could have initially fooled unsuspecting hardcore kids into thinking that this was yet another straight-edge Youth Of Today knockoff, as soon as the needle hits opener "Den Of Iniquity", you knew that you were dealing with something else entirely.
      The band's first full-length album saw the different elements heard on their earlier demo and 7" material finally coalesce into a howling, blackened, violent whole. A kind of ragtag street-level crossover metalpunk enshrouded in imagery and themes influenced by the occult, endtime-obsessed religious cults, The Process Church, and anti-socialists like Boyd Rice and Anton Lavey, Integrity's sonic and psychic assault was overseen by that monstrous, iconic fanged skull that became the sigil for these Cleveland shit-starters. And their sound was defined here. Kicking off with a swell of rumbling feedback and the voice of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, Those Who Fear quickly erupts into its punishing heaviness, pummeling you with the crushing metallic chug and arcane lyrics of "Micha: Those Who Fear Tomorrow" and the brutal metallic hardcore of "Diehard"; many of the familiar themes of loyalty, betrayal and violence commonplace to early 90s hardcore can be found here, but they were filtered through frontman Dwid's peculiar, esoteric worldview, and even when these songs are carved out of the sort of stomping hardcore that was common of the time, Integrity still wrenched that sound into something that was uniquely theirs.
      And man, it's riff city. Just about every song on this album features at least one killer, titanic riff, and searing, atmospheric guitar solos are everywhere. Some people at the time scoffed at how over-the-top metal this sounded, but it worked, super catchy and invigorating, the songs laden with huge hooks beneath all of the ugliness and horror. A heavy thrash metal influence seeps into the album's heavier moments, songs like "Tempest" and "In Contrast Of Sin" tearing through ragged staccato thrash riffs and vicious tempo shifts, and Dwid's uniquely gnarled and unhinged howl (mixed with his propensity for unsettling whisper tracks that are buried deeper in the mix) fuel the aura of psychosis and imminent violence that reverberates off the entire record. Coupled with the band's reckless, outlaw attitude, it's clear from this first album that these guys were destined to become the pariahs/prophets of the 90's hardcore underground that they turned into. Might be the best metallic hardcore album of the decade, but in any event, the influence of the "Holy Terror" sound that originated here is still being felt today, reaching it's black-taloned tendrils through various channels of metal, punk and experimental music. Essential.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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