Editorial Reviews
Music Review:
Music Review
Costanzo Festa: La Spagna [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD] [SACD]
Music: Caress Me Baby [Import]
Casa de Samba, Vol. 4 [Import]
Curvature of the Earth [Import]
Eroica Trio: Dvorak/Shostakovich/Rachmaninov
Album Description
With their second album, Cast the First Stone, Ensign follow the hardcore blueprint - a quick burst of chords, a brief reprieve from the bass, then a relentless spring to the end, as the vocalist shouts out serious lyrics, usually about politics or society. Like any hardcore record, it's over pretty quickly, but the heavy guitars mean that it's even more of an endurance test than the average hardcore record. And while hardcore is about power and speed, Ensign's metallic leanings illustrate that there's a fine line between razor-edged aggression and brute force. Sick Of It All's Lou Koller makes a guest appearance.