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Kentucky’s cohen_noise are deviators from the metalcore norm.
Their arresting new single, Fantasy, is a fantastic example of a familiar modern heaviness taken to more experimental depths.
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Review from Matthew Powers Insomnia Music mag Journalist
The guitars clench the foreboding track in a tight grip of existential dread, a fear of both the unknown and the inevitable. The inevitable in this case being another punch in the face, because damn, this is a furious song. The drums are a real standout here, with a dancy hi-hat beat behind the ominous discordant screeching of the guitars giving way to some unexpected and impressive off-time rhythms. And…was that a few nu metal aesthetics I heard throughout Fantasy in the Korn-like atmosphere and DJ scratching that closes the song out?
The roaring vocals, expected given the genre, seethe behind a filter that is reminiscent of talking through an old telephone. This detail also matches up with the Tardis-esque red phone booth on the cover of the band’s forthcoming release ‘Some Things Aren’t Forever, But For A Reason’. The phrasing there brings to mind old Underøath song titles or, more recently, the UK’s own Static Dress with whom cohen_noise fit in just perfectly with.
There is a palpable sense of dramatic style and intensity that the more post-hardcore leaning bands of the metalcore genre excel at and cohen_noise are one such band to keep your eyes and ears open for.