Every Day Is Marked

Blitzkriegbliss: Every Day is Marked (label unknown)
Abrasive loud punk/hard rock with strident and abrasive female vocals. Raw dark energy with oodles of anger and loathing. Tracks are dominated by very dynamic female vocals that screech, shout and moan…sorta like Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, but with less subtlety. The tendency of Cacciola to trail off at the end of every yell gets grating after awhile, while weird falsetto valkeyrie war cry unsettles the listener. Heavy guitars with some cool riffs, but nothing too exciting. Blitzkriegbliss works abrasiveness and dissonance to their advantage, but songs seem slightly too long. Best tracks:2, 5, 8, 10
FCC: track 2 (f******), track 4 (f*ck)
1) “Beast” – (3:30) heavy, driving punk. Yelling and moaning vocals that somehow work, with occasional strident shrieks. Repetitive. Loud.
2) “Vronsky” – (3:23) Cool, dissonant guitar (bass?) riff. Annoying vocals. FCC: “phucking”
3) “Goin’ Out West” – (3:04) simple, driving…hard rockability? Chuck Berryish chorus.
4) “Dance” – (3:28) starts with quick metal riff. Repetitive. Dismal screeching vocals around 1:40. sounds like dry heaving around 2:50, then picks up. FCC: “fu*k”
5) “Dark” – (3:19) quieter track, w/ cool, simple offbeat percussion/guitar interplay. Vocals seem more weary.
6) “Fisherman” – (1:44) loud hard rock riff. Slows down breifly at 0:35. shouting/drawling vocals.
7) “Citadel” – (2:39) fast guitars. Mediocre track.
8) “Raise” – (5:47) sloooowww. Bass riff lumbers along menacingly, while singer painfully screams slowly.
9) “Be Here” – (3:42) slow and repetitive. Very dark. Percussion gets bored, and unassumingly goes elastic/fantastic/spastic around 2:00.
10) “Spark” –(4:31) quick riff with odd xylophoney beats. Start/stop dynamics. Picks up briefly at 1:44, 3:30. Reviewed by Scott Coomes.