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Artist: The Banner
Album: Frailty
Label: Ferret Music
Playtime: 34:39 min
Genre: Hardcore
Rip date: 2008-05-19
Street date: 2008-06-10
Size: 63.60 MB
Type: Advance
Quality: 242 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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For going on ten years New Jerseys, The Banner have broken all the unwritten
rules for hardcore bands while leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.
Starting off as the more traditional hardcore band playing with all the
metal-core powerhouses or the more metal band playing with all the
traditional hardcore stalwarts or opening for huge mainstream rock acts such
as My Chemical Romance, Coheed and Cambria or Taking Back Sunday , the band
has found its place being out of place. While their first three releases
jumped around stylistically as they honed their craft the band truly hit
their stride with the release of Each Breath Haunted their second LP and
first at their new home on Ferret Music.
“Each Breath Haunted was the first record where we weren’t trying to do a
little bit of everything, it was sort of like we were trying a bunch of
different hammers and then suddenly we picked one up and said to ourselves
“Yeah, this is the one I want to hit people with.” Explains singer Joey . The
band clearly takes pride in trying to be a worthy legacy to the many bands
they draw Influence from such as For The Love Of, Integrity, Ringworm, Ink &
Dagger and of course the Misfits and Danzig.
The band has never proved their worth more than their latest release Frailty.
“I feel like Each Breath was definitely us getting settled into our new path
AND Frailty is us charging forward full force.” Joey goes on. When playing
dark music bands walk a fine line of writing credible, moving music or being
cartoony ghouls .The Banner clearly has no desire to do the later and blasts
the listener with brutal, genuine offerings of rage , depression and
hopelessness while smashing the ears with crushing doom and blazing fast
hardcore punk. Easily holding their own on stage with hardcore giants like
Madball and Terror as well as metal powerhouses such as Himsa and Killswitch
Engage, the band's fans have come to expect a chaos during lives performances
to match or exceed that found on their records.
Though briefly disbanding in 2007 the band quickly bounced back stronger than
ever with a new sense of drive and hasn’t looked back since. Non stop touring
has left fans with almost no time to catch their breath when the band entered
the Machineshop (Every Time I Die) in December to begin writing Frailty. The
break has proven to be little more than the quiet before the storm as the
band has been playing nearly every weekend since its completion. With
extensive touring booked for the foreseeable future the band is poised to
leave its mark permanently on the hardcore/metal community.
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01. Welcome Fuckers ( 1:09)
02. The Wolf ( 4:14)
03. Leechbath ( 2:08)
04. A Hellbound Heart ( 4:10)
05. On Hooks ( 2:38)
06. IWIWD ( 1:04)
07. Sphrenia ( 3:15)
08. Funerals ( 1:45)
09. Dusk ( 4:29)
10. I Am Legion ( 3:47)
11. Ratflesh ( 1:29)
12. The Father And The Wayward Son ( 4:31)
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The Banner - Frailty (2008)
