The few times I dipped into hardcore this year I was pleasantly surprised. A year like this is bound to have a few raw, caustic manifestations of nihilism, Integrity and Code Orange immediately come to mind. That being said a very non-hardcore album managed to sate my hunger for hardcore this year. Valborg has been all over the map as of late and Endstrand is by far their angriest album to date. Everything is very straightforward and minimal, from the riffs to the occasional song where the only words barked are that of the track title repeated over and over again, but for some reason I can't just dismiss this as bare barbarism. Endstrand oozes with swagger from beginning to end in the most punishing way possible and while each scrap of rusty aural abuse might seem simplistic, the savagery in their delivery is what makes Valborg illuminated in the long night of angry music.
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