DYING WISH
Symptoms Of Survival SHARPTONE
Portland mosh-starters unleash a next-level call to arms
PRESS/RICHARD DE SILVA
Dying Wish are one of the most exciting bands to emerge from both sides of the hardcore/metalcore divide in recent years. If their 2021 debut, Fragments Of A Bitter Memory, was a stellar opening statement, Symptoms Of Survival takes everything that was great about it to the next level. Exactly 15 seconds into the title track, the band have already issued the biggest mosh call of the year and things only escalate from there, with Watch My Promise Die and Tongues Of Lead recalling both Knocked Loose and At The Gates while making the sound absolutely their own. Closer and single Lost In The Fall soars towards the bleakest of horizons, completing a masterclass of melodic brutality.