WHITE WIDOWS PACT - True Will
November 10, 2015, 8 years ago
(New Damage)
Every once in a blue moon, every decade or so, a band actually successfully combines Slayer riffing and hardcore attitude and it works. Seriously rare, but White Widows Pact have pulled it off here, the Brooklyn band delivering a very impressive debut in True Will (I recall this happening back in the '90s with some band I forget the name of now, and, well, I bet it happened once in the '00s too). White Widows Pact have a ton of healthy bottom-end to their sound, coming across like something that was just a bit too brainy to be on Victory in '93 but definitely had sonic tendencies similar to the bulldog bands of the era.
And the riffs: "Hangman" features the Slayer riffing previously mentioned but delivers it in a Crowbar framework, which is pretty cool, considering the overall vibe still manages to be heavy-handed hardcore, while "No Exit" delivers a chugging riff that will remind listeners just how mighty the chugging riff can be. Bio says they've toured with Earth Crisis, and I'm not at all surprised there, that band springing to mind more than once during my enjoyable time spent with this album (but we're talking Slayer-lovin'-era Earth Crisis, not Firestorm-era and not did-they-really-have-a-nu-metal-era-or-were-we-jumping-to-conclusions-era).
