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These days, it seems everywhere I turn, I can\u2019t help but run into a great band from Germany. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s in the water over there, but with groups like Kanonenfieber<\/strong>, Unhallowed Deliverance<\/strong>, and classic acts like Sodom<\/strong> releasing great records, it\u2019s no surprise that yet another talented group hails from Deutschland. No Shelter. <\/strong>is a five-piece from M\u00fcnster that peddles in D-beat brutalization with a heaping helping of Boss HM-2 pedal worship. Its latest, Remission\/Resolve, is a bass-driven freight train of Swedish-coded blackened death metal, crust punk, and hardcore, conjuring direct comparisons to genre stalwarts like Nails, Rotten Sound, <\/strong>and Trap Them. <\/strong>Can No Shelter. <\/strong>stand in the spotlight with some of the most vicious rippers around, or is it flying too close to the sun, wax wings ready to send it to hell with the rest of the copycats?<\/p>\nNo Shelter.<\/strong> is relatively new to the scene (forming in 2017), but it sounds like a veteran unit. Every element of the band feels honed for their specific brand of violence. Thick, earth-shaking bass drives the album, while HM-2-infused riffage switches between blackened death blasts and Pantera<\/strong>-esque grooves. Bolstered by intricate drum fills and classic hardcore 2-step energy, the vocals are equally caustic, calling to mind a truly evil combo of Ringworm<\/strong>\u2019s<\/strong> James Bulloch and Nails<\/strong>\u2019 Todd Jones. No Shelter.<\/strong> plays with no holds barred throughout the entire album, and each band member takes to their role with a reckless abandon more than fitting for their genre inspirations.<\/p>\n \ufeffRemission\/Resolve by No Shelter.<\/a><\/p>\n The brutally sludgy bass is the adrenaline-juiced heart that keeps Remission\/Resolve pumping. Where bands like Job for a Cowboy <\/strong>and Horrendous <\/strong>use bass to shore up their technicality and the spaciness of their sound, No Shelter.<\/strong> uses it as a sledgehammer. Bass is integral to metal, making riffs deeper, heavier, and more impactful overall, and No Shelter.<\/strong> just gets it. Every riff is complemented by slapping destruction, and the bass gets to fly free or drive breakdowns such as on tracks \u201cRotten,\u201d \u201cDoomed,\u201d and \u201cUltimate Disgust\u201d. No Shelter.<\/strong> suplexes the trend of bass-less metal right into the dumpster with And Justice for All. Another element where No Shelter.<\/strong> pulls its sound from the Swedish death metal sewer is the production. The band wears its Entombed<\/strong> inspiration on its sleeve proudly (if the \u201cWolverine Blues\u201d cover didn\u2019t already give it away), and the HM-2 pedal is all over Remission\/Resolve. Production was something No Shelter.<\/strong> wanted to nail, and Remission\/Resolve is borderline perfect in this area. The bass is suitably nasty without sounding like a punchline (sorry Primus, <\/strong>I still love you), the snare drum hits hard without becoming tinny, and the vocals are discernible while still retaining the rawness and emotionality required for D-beat destruction. To cap it all off, the guitar brings cohesion to Remission\/Resolve with that classic chainsaw tone that would make bands like Hath, Dismember, <\/strong>and Dormant Ordeal <\/strong>proud.<\/p>\n Remission\/Resolve isn\u2019t perfect, although where it stumbles isn\u2019t in songwriting or musicianship. This LP lasts a blistering 32 minutes, but the collection of twelve tracks starts with an intro, features two interludes, and a cover as the final track. While I appreciate the interludes as breaks from the aural onslaught on Remission\/Resolve, they vary in quality. The unoriginally titled \u201cIntro\u201d (at least it knows what it is) is suitably sinister and builds up anticipation, but the two interludes are almost too simple musically and seem to only exist to let the listener breathe. An admirable idea, and one that is necessary for a lot of albums in this genre, but these moments would be better served attached to the end of already existing tracks. On top of that, I wish they would loop back in on the musical themes established across the album and in the intro, as it stands, the two interludes \u201cI\u201d and \u201cII\u201d feel like they come from a different album.<\/p>\n No Shelter.<\/strong> ends up with a very good record that stands nearly toe-to-toe with its genre inspirations and rightfully lives up to the bands it references so heavily. Therefore, it is fitting that Remission\/Resolve closes things with a rip-roaring cover of Entombed<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cWolverine Blues,\u201d a song that slides so well into the band\u2019s sound, it took me a minute to realize it was a cover in the first place. \u201cWolverine Blues\u201d ends up feeling perfectly placed right alongside the best tracks on the album and works as a self-referential closer to an album chock-full of Swedish buzzsaw worship. No Shelter.<\/strong> doesn\u2019t so much rock the boat with its brand of blackened hardcore as it does slap a fuckin\u2019 motor on it and violently rocket across the lake.<\/p>\n Rating:<\/strong> 3.5\/5.0 \n\tGive in to Your Anger:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written By Nameless_n00b_605 These days, it seems everywhere I turn, I can\u2019t help but run into a great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[1135,12054,12055,12056,12057,12058,12059,18,117,12060,1138,12061,12062,19,17,1139,12063,337,12064,12065,12066,12067,1142,1143,12068,12069,12070,12071,12072],"class_list":{"0":"post-12784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-1135","9":"tag-3-5","10":"tag-blackened-death-metal","11":"tag-crust","12":"tag-d-beat","13":"tag-dismember","14":"tag-dormant-ordeal","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-entombed","18":"tag-german-metal","19":"tag-hardcore","20":"tag-hath","21":"tag-ie","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-jul25","24":"tag-kanonenfieber","25":"tag-music","26":"tag-nails","27":"tag-no-shelter","28":"tag-primus","29":"tag-remission-resolve","30":"tag-review","31":"tag-reviews","32":"tag-rotten-sound","33":"tag-sodom","34":"tag-swedish-death-metal","35":"tag-trap-them","36":"tag-unhallowed-deliverance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kevin_Bethke_576336-500x334.jpg\")
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DR:<\/strong> 7 | Format Reviewed:<\/strong> 320 kb\/s mp3
Label:<\/strong> This Charming Man Records<\/a>
Websites:<\/strong> noshelter.bandcamp.com<\/a> | facebook.com\/NoShelterBand<\/a>
Releases Worldwide:<\/strong> July 25th, 2025<\/p>\n