Band: Hero Destroyed
Title: Throes
Label: Relapse Records
Distribution: Rough Trade Benelux
Release date: 31/08/2010 - 01/01/2011
Review: CD

Hero Destroyed, hailing from Pittsburgh, and formed in 2005, debut with Throes on Relapse, and with the knowledge that Relapse hasn’t but interesting names on its rooster (to be nuanced…), it must mean something, doesn’t it?

Throes, which has duration of thirty five minutes, consists of eleven intense and pumping Metalcore-acts, sometimes sludgy, then again groovy or rather catchy-hardcoring, yet always with a skull-crushing approach and somewhat mechanical-technical excellence. Turn-off: Hero Destroyed have nothing special to add to the genre in general.

For fans of Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, Spitfire, Converge, Norma Jean etc…

75/100

Ivan Tibos.