If recent events have left you searching for a soundtrack to fit the times, hardcore supergroup END might just have provided it. Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face – their debut full-length following aptly-titled EP The Unforgiving Arms Of God – is a primal howl of distilled rage and anxiety. It sounds like a year’s worth of catharsis fed through a distortion pedal and shaped into a dense, destructive wrecking ball of noise. Supergroups can often be self-indulgent affairs but END are sharply focused and sound like far more than the sum of the project’s individual parts. If you’re unaware, the band features Counterparts frontman Brendan Murphy and Fit For An Autopsy guitarist Will Putney, along with past and present members of Misery Signals, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Shai Hulud and...
