The brooding “Welcome To The New Dark Ages” is killer, ending on a repeated stuttered chord and segueing right into the moody downtempo of the synth-driven title track. Cribbing from their own playbook with In Darkness’ nonstop tracking, Antisect never pauses, one song jumps to the next, letting their dynamics and compositional differences be the divisions. “Weapons Of Mass Distraction” is four minutes of ominous and accented spoken word – about the current state of humanity, of course – followed by three minutes of galloping riffy punk-metal, almost thrashy in its intensity, that leads headlong into “Acolyte,” which is arguably both the album’s most direct and least interesting song.Īs strong as that first half is, The Rising Of The Lights hits a stride in the second half that simply doesn’t let up. With its rapid-fire verse melody, singalong chorus, and the instant hook of its “We will not be broken!” refrain, it’s a perfect crust punk opening shot, a call to arms and a statement of intent wrapped in gargled-glass vocals and scummy guitar tones. “Spirit-Level” kicks off the proceedings with Bryson’s insistent bass, Lyons and Burwell coming in with an arena-huge combo of driving beat and crashing chords beneath a wailing siren. As with Amebix’s Sonic Mass, that band’s smashing return in 2011, The Rising Of The Lights has a palpable Killing Joke vibe in its blend of post-punk spirit and metallic edge, and like Sonic Mass, it’s an absolutely grand return. It’s been thirty years, but they’re picking up where they left off, with metal-inflected crust punk, now updated for the new millennium. Of course, given the line-up, it’s not a big surprise that The Rising Of The Lights feels more like the extension of that later EP than like Darkness‘ anarcho-political punk. After all that, two-thirds of Antisect’s first final line-up is back in business, once again out from the void. Now, six years after that, Boyce is gone again, and Out From The Void vocalist / bassist John Bryson is back with Burwell and the perpetual Lyons. Label: Rise AboveTwenty-four years later, they came back, with founding guitarist Pete Lyons and founding vocalist Pete Boyce alongside a few members of the 1987 lineup and new drummer Joe Burwell.
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