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Final Verdictum: True View - Stick To Your Guns (English)

 Today I bring you a Hardcore album, a genre that it's not always well received by the Metalhead community and that makes some doubt of its quality.
 So I kindly ask you all to be open-minded and give this one a try.
 This album is capable of being true to the Hardcore genre and still bring some elements that are capable of reaching to a wider audience.
 Let's see what does this True View is capable of bringing to the table, and what makes it stand apart from the other Hardcore albums.



Stick To Your Guns is a Hardcore Punk band from Orange County, California.
The band is Jesse Barnett the vocalist, Andrew Rose bass player, George Schmitz drummer and Chris Rawson and Josh James, secondary guitarists.
The band is signed with Pure Noise Records.





The band slowly opens with a confirmation that this album is truly reflexive and personal, being the lyrics influenced by several aspects from their band members life and from the conclusions and learning lessons that they have taken from the experiences they have taken part in.
But don't be mistaken, this is not a slow album, at the end of the song we are thrown straight into a heavy breakdown that is capable of melting our faces, this combining with the aggressive vocals from the vocalist Jesse Barnett and the screaming guitars in triple dose, make for an explosive ending that makes us understand what these guys are really capable of.









With an introduction that seems to be taken from a Slayer album and with a very strong influence from Trash Metal, this song is without a doubt the fastest one in this record, still, it changes it's absolutely fast pace into several monologs from the vocalist, in which himself reflects about the past and the things he has been trough and the moments he would like to turn back time, that explains in itself the song title.
This one is without a doubt one of the best songs found in True View, allowing the band to show a greater variety and pleasing a larger amount of fans of other music genres outside Hardcore.






Starting with a female voice that shows suffering, it's impossible to remain calm after listening to this one, then the pace quickly changes into an aggressive tone that shows us the political position of this band and how they are against poverty and social problems, which is common in hardcore albums. To the ones that are not as familiar with this genre, almost all the Hardcore albums contain a social intervention message and a voice of action, asking society to fight back and react against social problems and the politics established governments, and that's where Stick To Your Guns really shine.

I hope you all enjoyed this album half as much of this album as I did. It brings us some perspective and a different sound that we are not as used to. I hope that this one can be an entry door into the hardcore genre for some of you.