Ah, good. Moralist are a melodic hardcore outfit from Southampton. We need more melodic hardcore acts, especially based in the south. They’ve been something of a dying breed the last few years, and the time is no doubt right for a melodic hardcore revival. Ok, so I am being facetious, but these are certainly bleak times: the world economy and the climate are fucked; everyone’s at war, and it’s not just the terrorists we’ve got to worry about in terms of the global battlefield. Five years of Conservative government is taking its toll on the nation’s mood. The kids are angry. The five guys in Moralist, sporting beards and moustaches, backwards baseball caps and black hoodies, are angry.
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The four tracks on their debut EP emphasise the hardcore over the melody; Stu Croll’s ravaged-throat vocals are thick with venomous rage and the heavily overdriven guitars burn with nihilistic fury. It’s by no means groundbreaking, but it’s credible and its sincere.
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