Burning Flag have arrived into 2021 with this their 3rd album, having spent their time as so many other bands have in 2020 writing and recording, Matador arrives like a bull in a china shop (pardon the pun), smashing its way through all the bullshit that has spewed out over the last year and in general. The only good Matador is a dead one in my opinion, but this album makes up for its use of the name in many ways, a battle to the death that strikes at the heart a system that needs a to be gored by the bull that is Burning Flag. At first listen, this album did make some headway into my innate hatred of shouty generic hardcore that is exactly that for the sake of it, but on second listen it did what I was hoping for, it gave up so much more, the likeness to one of my favourite album of 2020 ...
