Black Breath - Sentenced To Life

"The Seattle death- and thrash-influenced quintet draws members from Shook Ones, Go It Alone, Blue Monday, and Get the Most, and their second Southern Lord LP is proudly in the hardcore tradition. Don't let the hair fool you: Black Breath are, more or less, a hardcore band. Yes, there are those death and thrash influences-- no denying the air-guitaring solos, Swedish influences, or double leads. But when you listen to the Seattle-via-Bellingham quintet's second full-length, Sentenced to Death, you're just as likely to hear early East Coast hardcore acts like Cro-Mags and a variety of European crust punks as you are Slayer or Entombed (from whom they likely snagged their name, via a cover of an earlier Repulsion song, and definitely nicked their HM-2 guitar tone)." - Pitchfork