{"id":30178,"date":"2013-03-25T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-grappler-everything-ive-ever\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:14:38","slug":"album-review-grappler-everything-ive-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-grappler-everything-ive-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Grappler &#8211; Everything I\u2019ve Ever Feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/grappler.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Just when you thought the melodic hardcore genre had been done to death, every so often there\u2019s a band that hops along and breathes new life into a battered sound. North London\u2019s <\/span><strong>Grappler <\/strong><span>shows off an orchestrated palette of sorrow on their newest record <\/span><em>\u2018Everything I\u2019ve Ever Feared\u2019<\/em><span>. Produced by Lewis Johns (Bastions\/Vales\/Goodtime Boys) and mastered by Alan Douches (Converge\/The Chariot\/The Dillinger Escape Plan), this quintet will surely and certainly be drawing in waves of attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Themed with the desperate strive to be something more, <em>\u2018Everything I\u2019ve Ever Feared\u2019 <\/em>is a very well-produced affair of intense hardcore punk craftwork. The core of this band\u2019s music involves harsh yells riding along melodically infused guitars that twinkle or crash, a subtle bassline, and steady atmosphere hitting drum work.<\/span><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>There are plenty of highlights which show the power behind this formula: the almost spoken word and hazy interlude of <em>\u2018Stories Of Madness, Of Violence\u2019 <\/em>clears the fog wonderfully as it goes into the balanced majesty of <em>\u2018Edward\u2019<\/em>; <em>\u2018Panacea\u2019<\/em> has an aura of poetic dizziness as it is led into multiple panicked voices; <em>\u2018I\u2019m Everything I\u2019ve Ever Feared\u2019 <\/em>takes a straight forward dynamic before taking a left turn into an unhinged melodic cathartic breakdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>All of them however don\u2019t measure to the climax of final track <em>\u2018Raised\u2019<\/em> which crashes in waves and flows gently like a breeze. The sombre spoken word interlude, the weirdly churned out guitar work towards the end, and the harmonious female wail to scream rides wonderfully towards a post rock euphoric finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span>Grappler <\/span><\/strong><span>has certainly renewed my faith in a genre that has been steadily going stale; their brand of melodic hardcore punk evokes emotion, passion and grandeur to die for. It twists and turns into either an urgent pace or a gentle reflection. Overall this band from North London has a lot of potential under their belts, and this record is a testament to that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>4\/5<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span>\u2018Everything I\u2019ve Ever Feared\u2019<\/span><\/em><span> by <strong>Grappler<\/strong> is available on the 8<sup>th<\/sup> April on <strong>Dog Knights Productions<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span>Grappler<\/span><\/strong><span> links: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Grappleruk?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><span>|<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grapplermusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Website<\/span><\/a><span>|<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/grappleruk.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><span>|<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grappleruk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Words by Aaron Lohan (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ooran_loohan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>@ooran_loohan<\/span><\/a><span>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought the melodic hardcore genre had been done to death, every so often there\u2019s a band that hops along and breathes new life into a battered sound. North London\u2019s Grappler shows off an orchestrated palette of sorrow on their newest record \u2018Everything I\u2019ve Ever Feared\u2019. Produced by Lewis Johns (Bastions\/Vales\/Goodtime Boys) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8181],"tags":[5879,1833,13083,10119],"class_list":["post-30178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-post","tag-album-reviews","tag-dog-knights-productions","tag-everything-ive-ever-feared","tag-grappler"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Album Review: Grappler - Everything I\u2019ve Ever Feared - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just when you thought the melodic hardcore genre had been done to death, every so often there\u2019s a band that hops along and breathes new life into a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Album Review: Grappler - 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