Listening to Motives will make you think of hardcore dudes you know. Not that the Cleveland-based quintet sound in any way simple, or pedestrian — their grinding riffs and pendulous breakdowns are epic, and vocalist Ian Slagle’s shrieked cries and almost-but-not-quite-clean vocals have a raw acerbic power to them. It’s more that Motives’s huge-yet-tangible sound reminds the listener of packed shows in tight spaces, of crawling over the heads of the crowd to reach the mic in order to scream a chorus you’ve been listening to all week. They sound like a band you remember, or at least want to. The band’s new single and video for the track Death Throes, the title track of the band’s upcoming new album, locks this hard-to-capture feeling down. The song is a solid blast o...
