{"id":7672,"date":"2014-02-27T06:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:10:25","slug":"cdraisedfist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdraisedfist\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Raised Fist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rais.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rais.jpg\" alt=\"rais\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nRaised Fist<br \/>\n&#8220;Dedication&#8221;<br \/>\n(Burning Heart Records)<\/h4>\n<p>Blistering. \u00a0Singer Alexander sounds like he&#8217;s trying to set a record for shoving the most words into a punk song. \u00a0There is this screaming urgency to Raised Fist. \u00a0Falling somewhere faster and grimier than hardcore, but more neurotic and thrashing than punk, and screaming the ear of the typical metalcore hybrid, Raised Fist have an interesting energy. \u00a0Alexander has about one mode, and that&#8217;s veins sticking out of his neck yelping in one tone. \u00a0But he does it with a concise pronunciation so it&#8217;s effect is more striking than it should be. \u00a0He usually delivers lines in super-burst runs, that when coupled with the pounding relentlessness of it all, it just makes too much fucking sense. \u00a0The first listen had me. \u00a0That&#8217;s rare.<\/p>\n<p>When broken down to their individual elements, the band is surprisingly mediocre. \u00a0No outstanding drums. \u00a0No guitars that just knock me senseless. \u00a0And vocals are amazingly linear. \u00a0But it&#8217;s that intangible quality of some bands that when combined, they create something interesting. \u00a0Not the most groundbreaking by any means, but thoroughly enjoyable. \u00a0It&#8217;s the attitude and energy. \u00a0Fists will be raised easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raised Fist &#8220;Dedication&#8221; (Burning Heart Records) Blistering. \u00a0Singer Alexander sounds like he&#8217;s trying to set a record for shoving the most words into a punk song. \u00a0There is this screaming urgency to Raised Fist. \u00a0Falling somewhere faster and grimier than hardcore, but more neurotic and thrashing than punk, and screaming the ear of the typical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[1202,3611,5801],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}