Album Of The Week: Violent Sons’ Nothing As It Seems

Boiling in the depths of the Providence music scene is pure intensity. Regardless of genre, nothing is sugarcoated and everything is as real as your senses tell you. A wonderful example of this trademark has to be Sean Murphy. He’s fronted hardcore punk revolutionaries Verse and lo-fi shoegaze punk act Bad Swimmers, and now this ball of poetic rage is returning to his roots. Violent Sons have a new album out titled Nothing As It Seems, and it very well could be one of the best debut albums to ever come out of The Creative Capital. It’s loud, unapologetic and angry. In other words, it’s absolutely pristine.

Classic hardcore riffs crawl up your spine and feverish drums destroy everything in sight while Murphy’s vocals bring the assault again for good measure. Anti-establishment and anti-authority, Violent Sons’ new album is for the rebel in us all. It makes you want to shout and break all the chains that bind you; its songs will hit your soul and reenergize it with an adrenaline-filled battery. If you’re looking for a new awesome punk album, Nothing As It Seems is exactly what you’ve been looking for.

And now it’s the wonderful time for the top tracks off of my Album Of The Week. Don’t be afraid, don’t fret, it’s purely painless. Hey, you might even learn something.

The cryptic intro roaring into “Clean Boots” gets right into a furious track about entitlement and concludes with another scorcher of a riff. One that really gets me is “MK Ultra Minds,” a pro-individualist anti-war anthem all about government brainwashing and the wearing away of the human condition via war. Murphy sings about what a lot of people are afraid to talk about in this one. Another great anti-establishment anthem is “Faith Pushers,” all about living your own life and not letting anyone waving around a book tell you any different.

Violent Sons will celebrate the release of Nothing As It Seems at AS220 in Providence on September 25^th with Caught In A Crowd, My Fictions, and Barber Cop. If you want to bump around in a mosh pit, get a little crazy and have a lot of fun at a punk rock show, I highly suggest you go. 

Link to where people can buy & stream the album: http://bridge9.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-as-it-seems