The Psyke Projects latest album ’Apnea’ was praised as brilliant by most music critics when it hit the stores in 2007, so expectations have been high towards the Danish hardcore outfits new material. Luckily The Psyke Project eat expectations for breakfast. Or, maybe they eat cereal, we really don’t know - the point is:

The band suck up to no one and continue their uncompromising style from ‘Apnea’. It is quite easy to imagine them standing in a circle with their backs turned saying: “Either you get this or you don’t. If you do – great. If you don’t - fuck off, we don’t give a shit”. Which, honestly, is a refreshing attitude.

Throughout the album The Psyke Project interchanges between quiet, yet oddly disturbing passages and grueling and downright underpants-soilingly scary heaviness. Which is absolutely awesome. The guitar riffs are mean as hell, the drums are thunder-like and front man Martin Nielskov screams and snarls out his anger and frustration in a way that calls for respect (and the aforementioned underpants that needs changing…).

Most people label The Psyke Project hardcore and compare them to the likes of Neurosis and Will Haven, but it is hard to really pin the music down to a specific genre or make any fair comparisons, because the Danes are very much their own. It is also not necessary to compare or label them. Let’s just say this: It is loud, it is hard, it is intense, it is good. Amen. Now go buy the record.

Genre: Metal/hardcore
Who: The Psyke Project
Album: Dead Storm
Label: Lifeforce Records/Target Distribution
Year: 2009
Country: Denmark
Language: English
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Dead People Never Lie – Polaris – Stockholm Bloodbath – Winter – Storms Of The North