Nails "You Will Never Be One Of Us" LP

Transparent Green vinyl. 

With feedback roaring and some of metal and hardcore’s finest lifers, such as members of Neurosis, Baroness, and Converge, all saying that we will never be one of them, the song kicks into overdrive, immediately ripping your head off and sending it flying a few city blocks away. Guitarist Todd Jones has done away with his howling rasp, and has now adopted a lower, meaner growl, sounding infinitely more pissed off (just how?!) than he did on Abandon. The riffing between Jones and bassist John Gianelli is tight enough to be deadly yet loose enough to still classify this as somewhat human, and I’m surprised no one’s called the cops on Taylor Young’s slaughtering of his drumkit, as he seems to be hitting harder than before. For a 90-second anthem calling out the posers of metal and hardcore, it’s short, brutal, and effective. It’s hard to not see You Will Never Be One of Us as anything other than flawless, violent perfection just from this track alone.