VKNGS
VKNGS
(Noyes Records/Acadian Embassy Records)
3.5/5
Halifax, Nova Scotia-based post-hardcore/noise-rock band VKNGS have released a full-length self-titled debut album that’s been eight years in the making.
The album, with seemingly random numerical track titles, is an intense mix of drums and guitar, melody, and screaming, otherwise known as “aggression.”
VKNGS have a more mature sound than most bands in their genre. Yes, it’s angsty, but it’s nothing like what I was listening to back in high school, and probably not something I would have enjoyed during that time of great angst in my life either.
The album had an even balance between vocals and guitar, with neither one overpowering the other. And while I don’t quite have the ear required for understanding the lyrics in most of VKNGS’ songs, this was an easy album to have playing in the background, and I was certainly intrigued enough to listen to it all the way through without stopping.