Label: Deathwish
Reissued 7/28/2023, Originally released 2009
True to themselves and their art, as always, no matter the cost, Axe To Fall continues to push relentlessly forward, much like a shark that needs to always keep swimming to survive. Where No Heroes was a refinement and broadening of hostilities declared on previous assaults such as Jane Doe, Axe To Fall returns to the more AmRep-inspired noisecore abrasions of You Fail Me while also updating and making vital the thrash influences that defined earlier Converge efforts (Caring and Killing, Petitioning the Empty Sky) and retaining the hardcore hostilities and frantic pace so vital to their foundation. Of course, the experimental anguish and pleading for salvation are no mere sharpening of past knives but yet another leap forward in an existence full of them.
Track listing:
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Dark Horse
- Reap What You Sow
- Axe To Fall
- Effigy
- Worms Will Feed / Rats Will Feast
- Wishing Well
- Damages
- Losing Battle
- Dead Beat
- Cutter
- Slave Driver
- Cruel Bloom
- Wretched World