Priests Of Hiroshima is a six-piece musical outlet from Dallas, TX that released a self-titled ten-song album Priests Of Hiroshima. Their music sounds somewhere between Rage Against the Machine and Linkin Park. It was when those bands were at the peak of their powers that you saw a surplus of bands coming out with a similar sound. This immediately reminded me of those bands from the vocal affectation to the general mood.
I got the sense the band is taking themselves and the subject very seriously. I really never got the impression that the band was having much fun or celebrating. They sound a bit pissed off and aggressive and maybe they have every right to be. I kept thinking of dudes in the gym doing bench presses to this type of music, mashing at a concert or just getting amped. The band gets going with “Ragnarok” and right off they paint the dramatic mood with whispering vocals. There seem to be multiple vocalists however and they do a good job switching things up. The drums are a little intense throughout and I enjoyed the distorted guitar progression. “Little Boy” is an ambient piece with some vocal samples thrown over it. The band gets back into song mode with “Long Division” and they sound a lot like Rage Against the Machine on this song. They also sing about very similar topics. “Same My Name” continues with loud guitars and current social movements while “Mercury Rising” might have the best groove on the album. They continue with “Thousand Ghosts,” “Metamorphosystem” and Summa Omnia.” “Summa Omnia’ had more of a grunge feel which I enjoyed. “Oceanside Deliverance” and “Emergence” continue to build a similar foundation. I remember seeing Rage Against the Machine back in the mid ’90s. It was still to this date the best concert I’ve ever seen. The band was all about us vs the powers that be. It was fuck the billionaires, the one percent and corporate greed. I ate it up. Now that I’m forty I’m not quite as pissed all the time but I like the fact that music like this is still being made by young people. It’s been a message we have seen with cultural protests, in our art and on the Internet. Priests of Hiroshima seems to be trying to keep that flame alive that was lit a long, long time ago.
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