When so many bands are going for the long, complex songs that drag an album out, Forced Order brings the brutality back to the fore front with a 14 song, 21 minute exercise in beating faces in, on the newest Vanished Crusade.

Throwing down the old scool way, with some extremely heavy riffage with chords that are picked harder than the quarterback in a game of dodgeball, vocals that are harshly thrown at you like you owe them an apology, and songs so short they can’t ride the cool roller coasters at Disney World, Forced Order come into the room, fuck you up, and then ask why the hell you got blood everywhere. It’s an exercise in the heaviest of core styles, Hardcore, crossed with metallic punk, that ensures a circle pit to tell your grandkids about.

Vanished Crusade doesn’t challenge the attention span, so put the Adderol down, and throw that neck into a frenzy they blitz you with staccato rhythms, some machinegun picking, and brutal drum beats that whip the atmosphere into an F5 storm. From the shorter songs (1:20 down to a ridiculous :30 second blitzkrieg), to the longer tracks (Allanfa at 3:09 and March of the Diseased with 2:41), Forced Order just attacks you with some of the heaviest old school metal riffs, combined with the punk high energy attack of the golden age. Dechrau, second to last track, just bleeds a metal pedigree, as it morphs into Allanfa, with a very stressfully toned, ballad-esque arrangement. It’s soft, acoustic, and beautiful, and bookends with the violence extremely well. Forced Order is a band to be reckoned with, regardless of your tastes in metal or punk.

Find Vanished Crusade by Forced Order out on August 7th, 2015!