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Integrity
- Record Label: Relapse Records
- Release Date: Jul 14, 2017
- Summary: The 12th full-length release for the metalcore band led by Dwid Hellion is a concept album about the final days of Armageddon.
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- Record Label: Relapse Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal
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Jul 14, 2017Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume is a landmark release for long-time metal miscreants Integrity, and a brave, brutal new direction for Hellion's life project.
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Jul 14, 2017The band, here, is confident enough, skilled enough, and thoughtful enough to turn this massive piece--two lps of dark-metaphysical music backed by hardcore-tinged thrash--into one of their best works, if not their best work.
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Kerrang!Jul 26, 2017Howling is full of venom, inspired by history and politics to create a dense mix of buzzsaw riffs and eerie atmospherics. [17 Jul 2017, p.52]
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Jul 14, 2017As always, Integrity’s affinity for chaos supplies much of Howling’s latent gravitas, especially on the first few listens. The record’s lurching pace is powered by a bludgeoning type of bait-and-switch mechanic; For every extended, arduous trudge through the trenches, there’s a shot of good, unclean fun.
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Jul 14, 2017Here, retaking the signature spell that Hellion and crew first conjured in the ’90s Cleveland scene, the band’s haunted hardcore gets a fresh coat of paint for the next stage of darkness. If you’re ready to enter the nightmare, this will get you howling.