Mind Piece

Lately I've been on a big kick on getting a hold of demo's from younger bands and the band Mind Piece (Ironic because my new band is named Mind Collapse, future post on that at some point) is one of the most solid of the bands I've heard over the last few months. It seems like California has been rolling out a ton of new and hard hitting bands but New York has their own little special weapon.

I honestly don't know any history of this band or if they where in any previous bands, hell for all I know this could be their first band and release but its a whooper of a 6 song demo. Their song structure and writing techniques are superb for classic late 80's to early 90's New York influenced hardcore. Only surprising thing here is they are actually from NY unlike a lot of bands who copy or are influenced by the sound. Mind Piece plays a solid hard hitting mid-pace to faster hardcore that brings back the likes of breakdown, outburst in a little bit of biohazard at times. A lot of the guitar riffs and heavy chord progressions bring to mind a less heavier no warning that makes you want to put your fist through concrete.

Mind Piece is a heavy band but aren't a band that writes their songs around breakdowns or massive two step parts, everything from the hard hitting drum work to the smooth heavy raw chord progression brings to mind a band like Final World or a times like a less heavy sounding no warning.2 The vocals of course are your normal straight forward pissed off vocals but the music is what grabs me about this release. The recording isn't amazing sounding but it really brings out the real raw feel of this band but still has a very smooth atmosphere to it, it's actually nice to hear a recording like this when half of the bigger hardcore and metal bands are putting out over produced/mixed bullshit that sounds so pro-tooled it makes me want to vomit. It will be interesting to see the future release of this band they do have a release coming out on New View Records (Nick Jett's from Terror record label) soon. Hopefully that will take their crown as a newer new york hardcore band that can keep up and place themselves as another nyhc classic, they have a long way to go but if they stick together we may see these boys take over.

Mind Piece- Demo 2007


Download
1. Adrift
2. No Control
3. Wearing Thin
4. The Earth is Flat
5. Wasted
6. Violent Change