THROWN – Excessive Guilt

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• Band:
  THROWN
• Duration: 00:20:48
• Available from: 08/30/2024
• Label:

• Rising Empire

Thrown are a monster that, with extreme speed, is eating everything. The quartet comes from the fertile Swedish scene, which has churned out and is churning out sensations of quality and quantity, without excelling in the modern hardcore/metal segment to date.
Until today, in fact, when Thrown, a band with three candles on the cake, officially debuted with a million and a half monthly listeners on Spotify – just a little less than Knocked Loose, much more than Lorna Shore, Alpha Wolf and Emmure. To achieve these results, the band acted intelligently, sharing the stage with the big names in the scene, regularly releasing singles of consistent quality and exploiting the algorithm better than anyone else, also through the controversial Spotify tool called “Discovery Mode”, an option that involves giving up a portion of compensation to appear among the suggested artists and be included in some playlists. Obviously, this showcase cannot completely buy medium/long-term engagement like the one the Swedes are riding, who have won over listeners thanks to small bombs like “Greyout”, “Fast Forward” or “Dwell”.
Their formula is simple and extremely effective: the most square hardcore and metalcore is mixed with the groove and the sycophancy of nu metal, with important influences that also come from the whitest and most pissed off side of trap (Suicideboys, City Morgue). Simple, but heavy, like the electronic loop that will dig into your brain making the singles “On The Verge” and “Guilt” stick in your head. The most successful moments are those in which the band combines EDM samples and drum'n'bass with the groove of the rhythm section and the noise obtained from the guitars, as happens in the songs already mentioned in addition to “Look at Me” and “Bloodsucker”.
Between dirty breakdowns and very thick grooves amplified by Marcus Lundqvist's throat, the only risk is that of a repetitiveness that is however only apparent, as we find ourselves re-listening to the entire collection in an agile manner thanks to the trap metal variations, the dizzying wall of drums of “Vent” or the dissociative and disturbing noise of “Bitter Friend”.
If you want to find fault, there is a lack of narrative thread in this collection of very solid singles, but it is a bit of a flaw born of the streaming era, in which to grow organically you need to be present in a constant and consistent way: Thrown are masters of this contemporary culture, and probably “Excessive Guilt” still photographs them a little imperfect from an artistic point of view in a broad sense, as wonderfully angry and disruptive from a musical point of view.