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Alternative PressMay 20, 2016An LP of remarkable dynamic shifts, stop-on-a-dime time changes, tribal menace and sinister lyrics. [Jun 2016, p.102]
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May 20, 2016While their first record was a blur of contorted thrash tracks rarely surpassing the one-minute mark, there's a newly streamlined focus to A New Wave of Violence that's substantially more brutalizing.
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May 20, 2016Eleven years is a long layoff, but Head Wound City sound just as peerless and hard to pin down as they did more than a decade ago.
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Jun 2, 2016A New Wave of Violence is a perfectly titled blast of energy made by the best there are.
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May 20, 2016Judged on its own merits, A New Wave of Violence is a fine hardcore record, one that manages to balance chaotic intensity with a workmanlike precision that few punk bands can muster.