AMERICAN HERITAGE - Prolapse
December 30, 2014, 9 years ago
(Solar Flare Records)
Chicago's American Heritage are a cool bunch, the band taking a noisy, metallic approach to weirdo hardcore/noise rock. Call it noise metal, the band kindred spirits with Mastodon, although way less proggy and more straight-ahead than that band. "Eastward Cast The Entrails" kicks off this album/EP (nine songs, 33 minutes, three covers, you tell me) in superb fashion, the band crashing and bashing, angular and noisy and confusing but slightly academic, which is how things continue along for much of the six originals here, "Mask Of Lies" breaking things up with its simplistic punk rock sound. Then we get quick covers of Descendents, Black Flag, and Girls Against Boys to end things off: they all sound good and they confirm the band leans more towards punk than metal at heart, but the pounding sonics here prove that there's plenty for longhairs to love too.
