There's a notion among nincompoops that all heavy metal essentially sounds the same. Well, the nincompoops aren't wrong. Especially where the hard core gets corer — death metal, doom metal, sludge metal, thrash metal — the basic variations are the guttural almost-subsonic ugghs accompanied by screes and kerrangs, and the banshee-hasstubbed-his-toe vocals with guitars axeing away. But that's where a band like Torche rips up the narrative and sprinkles it with bone and ash. Let there be no doubt about it: Torche is hard core. And don't let the sunny disposition of these four gents from sunny Miami fool you. Ever since they got together in 2004, Torche has been playing their stretched, twisted,...
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