Union Of Uranus - To This Bearer Of Truth

Third "emo" post from me in a row... if you don't count the extenuating circumstances (ie in-between posts) that make it decidedly "not in a row". As I described in the Reach Out post, this "genre" was the first thing to break me out of an existence dominated by grindcore, death metal, and crust punk exclusively, so excuse me if I harp on it's greatness for a while. Union Of Uranus, however, are really only "emo" by vague stylistic inheritance, though, so if you're down on the whole style but dig bludgeoning, dense, hardcore, this might the band to check out.

If you're a fan of Orchid, June Paik, or Usurp Synapse, you've probably heard these guys name-dropped as a point of reference. If this is the case, you probably don't need to read any further, as Union Of Uranus' sound very clearly influenced this gaggle and a whole bunch more. If not, imagine taking the "hardcore emo" foundation and fusing it with the wall-of-riffs approach of early crust punk, the hectic, battering, percussion of grindcore, and the suffocating darkness of early Neurosis. Or at least, that's what the first half of this CD sounds like. To This Bearer Of Truth is a discography piece consisting of two split EPs, a double 7", and one demo cassette. The latter of which is less atmospherically dense and more cornered on crushing hardcore. Still evil sounding shit throughout and fitting the aforestated descriptor, but with some definite stylistic advances from the earliest days that made these guys sound totally unique.

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You might wanna listen to this in two parts, though. 9 long tracks of music this crushing and heavy-handed can be a little to much to get into at first. If you need any more reason to download this, members went off to form Chokehold, Tragedy, and His Hero Is Gone.