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  • Summary: The full-length debut for the noise-rock supergroup that includes Jordan Blilie and Cody Votolato of The Blood Brothers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, and Locust's Justin Pearson and Gabe Serbian, was produced by Ross Robinson.
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Old Age Takes Too Long
I'm made of mistakes A disease named after me Haunts the adjustment fakes I'm just a thing A dull shape, a cliché A figure of speech Taught to... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. May 20, 2016
    80
    While 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.
  2. Alternative Press
    May 20, 2016
    80
    An LP of remarkable dynamic shifts, stop-on-a-dime time changes, tribal menace and sinister lyrics. [Jun 2016, p.102]
  3. May 20, 2016
    75
    Eleven 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.
  4. 70
    A New Wave of Violence is a perfectly titled blast of energy made by the best there are.
  5. May 20, 2016
    69
    Judged 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.
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  1. Jul 27, 2016
    5
    This sounds like 4 teenagers from a small town in the USA are all super pissed off about their parents and decided to start a band. Way tooThis sounds like 4 teenagers from a small town in the USA are all super pissed off about their parents and decided to start a band. Way too artzy, way too pretencious. Expand