Create Avoid - Heart Remains
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The Ghost InsideYour Demise
This Distance
Release Date
02/23/2010
Label
Pure Noise RecordsTracklist
1. Tyranny2. Gotham
3. Nothing To Lose
4. Rat Race
5. The Author
6. Nice Choice, Nice Life
7. Unfamiliar Faces
8. SOS
9. Finding Clarity
10. Heart Remains
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Riverside, California’s Create Avoid is a metallic hardcore band—nothing more, nothing less. If that isn’t usually your thing, it’s very unlikely that this album will be the one to change your mind. Heart Remains is a staunch, no-frills gut-punch that will undoubtedly leave hardcore fans excited but probably won’t appeal to many outside of the genre. If you like your hardcore with a little extra crunch, while at the same time incorporating that trademark Killing The Dream or This Is Hell-esque melodicism, then you will thoroughly enjoy this ten song offering. There isn’t much in the way of innovation on display here, but Create Avoid traffic in a very streamlined, well-executed sound. In other words, they trim the fat and leave you with a record of hardcore essentials.
Opening track “Tyranny” channels West Coast brethren The Ghost Inside, with Create Avoid overtly wearing their metalcore influences on their collective sleeves. The song is followed by “Gotham” and “Nothing To Lose,” more traditional melodic hardcore offerings. Songs like “Rat Race” and “Unfamiliar Faces” adeptly meld the band’s more melodic leanings with their desire to buffet the listener with their hefty metallic strike, while “Nice Choice, Nice Life” is a weighty straight metalcore number, and the title track is yet another song that encapsulates the band’s heavy-melodic dynamic interplay. The best song of the bunch is indubitably “SOS,” a prime example of what happens when a band puts all of the pieces together to create a true anthem.
Heart Remains is simply a very solid record. It’s not going to win over any new converts to hardcore, but any fans of the genre will find little to complain about here—Create Avoid touch all of the bases and they excel at what they do. They have an obvious love for hardcore and it is evident. This is not a release that wants for passion. There’s no filler, no flimsy attempts to pad the disc’s run-time, just a straight shot from track one to ten, a good disc from a band with a bright future.
--Jake Oliver
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Infinitely Inwards
Crazy album art.
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Atascadero, CA
you got it right wit "SOS" being the best song. Jared will agree there. have been listening to this on and off for about a month now, definitely good hardcore yet nothing revolutionary or groundbreaking. A solid first release they could build upon. Decoymusic will be streaming this album either today, or in the next couple days.
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Minneapolis, MN
S.O.S. is definitely my favorite with Tyranny being my second favorite. I have to admit I haven't listened to them as much lately as I thought I would, but I'm sure I'll come back.
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Lehigh Valley, PA
I wanna like this more than I do but I can't. His vocals are not good. The music is awesome but his vocals fall short for me. Like...he doesn't put enough "umph" behind them... I don't know. They def. have a bright future, hopefully this grows on me.
Wisconsin
just can't get into it. maybe it's the vocals. i don't know.
Kansas
don't like.
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