Narrows -- Under The Guillotine

8. Narrows -- Painted
February 28 -- Deathwish Inc.
United States
Featuring members of Botch, These Arms Are Snakes, Unbroken and Tropics (a few examples on a long list of notables), Seattle's Narrows are only two LPs deep in what will hopefully be a long career. Their latest effort Painted loudly announces their arrival to the post-hardcore party. Clocking in at less than 27 minutes (which includes the eight-minute long monolith that is "Greenland"), this piece of work doesn't waste any time saying what it has to say. Armed with Dr. Dave Verellen's sandpaper vocals and Jody Cox's and Ryan Frederiksen's doomy guitar work, Narrows are a tight unit whose full-blast yet thoughtful approach to aggressive metal is sure to make them a force to be reckoned with in the near future