Thursday, January 5, 2012

The United Sons of Toil - 2011 When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful


Band : The United Sons of Toil
Album : When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful
Release Year : 2011
Genre : Post-Hardcore | Noise | Experimental
 
Tracklist :
1.Alcoholism in the Former Soviet Republics   
2.Overturning the Rumford Fair Housing Act   
3.ILO Convention 169   
4.The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla   
5.The Shining Path   
6.Sword of Damocles   
7.The Contrition of the Addict   
8.Operation Cast Lead   
9.State-Sponsored Terrorism

The United Sons of Toil are a collective deeply rooted in the grinding noise and math rock that bubbled up from the Midwest during the mid ’90s. This is not to suggest that the Sons are a retro band in any sense, simply that the hoarse vocals, guitar damage, starts and stops, and sometimes-convoluted arrangements and time signatures hark back to a time when labels like Touch and Go, AmRep, and Dischord lorded over the indie-rock landscape.

Highly recommended band!! I never heard them before, they mix noisy sounds with post-hardcore perfectly. I really love all the songs titled and its background stories. This album is about The story is one of an oppressed and hopeless people. Pushed to the brink by corruption and squalid, inequitable conditions, they resort to violence. As they struggle, they convince themselves that their violence is justified and, in fact, that they have no other choice. When they come to power, they face the same problems as those they replaced and become oppressors themselves. Dissension within the new order sets the cycle in motion again.
Fundamental societal change can emerge only through radical individual change.

I don't have any words again to describe how awesome this album is, and i found a great review by MetalSucks, which you can read here
 
 
 
 
 
 

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the kind words and support.

    Russell (United Sons of Toil)

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  2. no problem ;D
    i love your music so much man!!

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