Luckily Profound and Profane isn’t something I’ll be forgetting about too soon.

He also adds in the melodic Phil Anselmo-ish inflections to his voice that Jasta performed on those Kingdom of Sorrow records we all forgot about.

Bassist Drew Murphy handles vocals, and sounds like Jamey Jasta after a three year binge on cheap whiskey and cigarettes. With this in mind, the fun-lovin’ Exodus of Fabulous Disaster is implemented to make the riffs bigger, the chugs chunkier, and the whole package that little bit faster and harder. 1 An obvious influence is Motörhead’s energetic Bastards, and a little bit of Thin Lizzy’s heaviest record Thunder and Lightning. Regardless of genre tags, what we’re all concerned with here is whether or not Hammer Fight is the life of the party or the unfortunate soul who pukes in the punch bowl and falls asleep on the staircase.įor my money, Hammer Fight is a hard rock band who runs that sound through a metal filter, analogous to how garlic bread is still bread even though it has garlic butter and cheese added to it which hit the taste buds first and make it appealing. New Jersey’s Hammer Fight and their sophomore record Profound and Profane are intent on making this fight even more difficult by walking the dividing line with the precision of a man who’s just consumed fifteen beers and is intent on doing a balancing act using the lines in the dive bar parking lot. deliciousness and a wonderful glass of Cornet. But a satisfying conclusion will never be reached. We can argue about what the dividing line between metal and hard rock is until the cows come home, involve the cows in the argument until we feel like steaks, and then argue over some rare 16 oz.

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