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Up The Fury - "Behind Every Mind" (Detonate Records)

Review by: Jason (www.scenepointblank.com)

 

Screw you with your Crime in Stereos, your Capitals, your Agents, and your Thieves and Assassins. Seriously, take a long jump off a short pier into Long Island Sound. Every week there seems to be a new band coming from that damn island that of yours that just feels the need to completely floor me. Is it something in the water that keeps you pumping out one great band after another? What is going on over there?

Case in point, Up the Fury. This band is reminiscent of bands I don't really listen to on a daily basis - Life Long Tragedy, Modern Life is War, Final Fight, etc. I for one am over this slow build up to a throbbing crescendo of emotional catharsis type hardcore. But then comes Up the Fury with Behind Every Mind and makes this sound seem as fresh as it did a few years ago. Up the Fury take that sound and add a solid groove to each and every song with some quality 90's chugga-chugga mosh. While Up the Fury's brethren like to live between walls of sound and snail pace climbs, Up the Fury, on the other hand, goes straight for the throat, grips tight, and doesn't let go till the final note.

It's always refreshing to hear a band that takes a genre of music that you've been over-saturating with and turn it into some listenable and enjoyable. I know it has something to do with you Long Island. You just have this uncanny knack as of late to put out great band after great band. I'm jealous. Who wouldn't want to go to their local hardcore show and get see a plethora of sweet hardcore/punk bands that share the same zip code, the same passion, but yet sound different from each other? Who wouldn't want to be part of that?

Long Island, one of these days I'm going to bare witness your awesome scene with my own two eyes. Until then you keep sending in your records to Scene Point Blank and I'll keep swooping them up to review. I'll sit in my living room chair moshing along and relish every minute of it.

 

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Up The Fury - "Behind Every Mind" (Detonate Records)

Review by: Andrew Haak (www.geekburger.com)

 

While Up the Fury boasts current and former members of such Long Island hardcore mainstays as Crime In Stereo, This Is Hell and The Backup Plan (okay, the latter wasn't quite as prevalent), the band's full-length debut is much more than a half-realized album from five dudes with some extra time. Behind Every Mind's 10 songs are rooted in the sound of Long Island hardcore, with fast tempos, throaty, shouted vocals and, most importantly, layers of brisk guitar melodies accenting the fiery chord progressions. Sure, that lands the band in similar territory as This Is Hell, but Up the Fury foregoes catchy sing-alongs and takes a more straightforward, unabashedly pissed-off approach, which contributes a lot to the record's underlying sincerity. There are also plenty of surging, mid-paced passages that call to mind Another Breath and early Modern Life Is War. They're not as immediate but, given time, you'll really start to feel their power.

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Up The Fury - "Behind Every Mind" (Detonate Records)

Review by: Brad at CD Baby (http://cdbaby.com/cd/upthefury)

 

"There's a war going on outside our windows and the casualty count has reached its peak." These, the opening words from "Tribal Is Never A Good Idea," the ninth track on the debut from this Long Island hardcore outfit, sum up the feel of this record perfectly. It's gripping, teaming with focused anger and justified animosity that spills over, reaches out, and takes you by the throat. As you might expect, the guitars here are the force that pushes it all along, and with two of 'em feeding off each other, it's makes for a huge sound, sandwiching the listener right in the middle. The vocals are equally effective, shooting off lyrics that are condensed with rage but not senselessly consumed with it. The result are songs that come across as brutally sincere and unwavering, intense but also very aware of musicianship and, buried deep under the aggression, unassumingly poised and collected.

 

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Up The Fury - "Behind Every Mind" (Detonate Records)

Review by: Isaak (www.saveyourscene.com)

 

I've been waiting for this with great anticipation. This is a new band from Long Island with members of This Is Hell and Crime In Stereo. They just released their debut full length named "Behind Every Mind" on Connecticut's Detonate Records, the record label of the singer of the pretty known old school kids in Signs Of Hope.

Musically UTF remind me a lot of Life Long Tragedy, This Is Hell and The Suicide File. They mix old school hardcore, with some rock 'n' roll riffs, a lot of melancholic melodies and intense vocals. Lyrics are interesting and well written, mostly melancholic (see "My Southaven" for example). They also include a Bukowski quote.

Production and artwork are also pleasing and suitable for what the band does. All in all this is a really nice debut. The band has already made some US and Canadian tours and shared the stage with many bands from Blacklisted to Bane. More and more bands come out playing that style but Up The Fury seem to have what it takes to stand out.

 

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UP THE FURY - "Behind Every Mind" (Detonate Records)
Review by: Jordan A. Baker (www.pastpunk.com)

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