BLKLSTHard To Swallow

Most bands need a review to speak for the quality of their work. In the case of Melbourne’s Blklst and their upcoming EP Hard To Swallow, with its swell of melodic metalcore, its striking resemblance to early Korn and Slipknot atop a magical modern mould of guitar mods and innovation, it speaks volumes on its own.

Pulsating guitar riffs quiver through the conflicted character exposed in Phase. Volcanic vocals of Hypocrite rumble daringly into dark realms before they mess you up with a volatile eruption. An and the unexpectedly extreme nature of Dressed to the Nines, the EP’s heaviest track, twists up your insides with a guttural effect and an electrifying roar.

Blklst take the absolute best elements of early metalcore and give them a face not before seen—their own.

Before their time is over, Blklst break out the big guns in Insane; merging their screams, rage, and fury. Crashing beats and riffs running rampant in an offering that encompasses the best of what came before.

Blklst take the absolute best elements of early metalcore and give them a face not before seen—their own. The Blklst face is an interchangeable mask that portrays a character that is simultaneously familiar, strange, and bewitching, who upon meeting you realise has both a pleasing and fearful potential to captivate, annihilate, and straight up dominate.

STANDOUT TRACKS: Psycho, Donnie Narco, Insane
STICK THIS NEXT TO: Mudvayne, Korn, 36 Crazyfists