Album Review: Year Of The Knife – Internal Incarceration
Losing someone close to you can be hard to put into words, but for Year Of The Knife, they’ve put it into a full album. The debut full-length from Delaware’s most destructive force comes in the wake of its members losing family and friends to addiction, and through its 13 tracks the ferocious five-piece confront those feelings of grief and heartbreak, but also empathy.Clocking in at just 31 minutes, there’s no time for pleasantries, as opener This Time swaggers into a bar fight it’s already won. Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou’s production beefs up the band’s death metal tendencies, while their ingrained hardcore inferno rages with all the energy of Employed To Serve’s Force Fed, swirling in a cacophony of chainsaw guitars and rampaging percussion. And this is very much the gamepl...
