AFTER YEARS OF metalcore becoming more and more watered down post its commercial peak, a new generation of bands are reaching right back into the depths of the genre’s earliest incarnation for inspiration.
“We look to the likes of Poison The Well, Botch and Norma Jean for inspiration,” says Ryan Wilkinson, guitarist of 156/Silence. “Those bands really took the time to craft something new in heavy music back then. All of us are in our 20s, so we never got to see those bands at their peak, so we’re going to try and recreate it for today.”
True to Ryan’s words, 156/ Silence are expertly evocative of that fertile underground period of 1999-2003. Their latest album, Irrational Pull, is wonderfully savage, technically bewildering and as raw as any of the Trustkill-era metalcore bands that they are so indebted to.
“I have always wanted to be in a metalcore band,” Ryan continues.