Fucking Invincible

It'll Get Worse Before It Gets Better (2014)

I withdraw my question.

Mixing the elements of noisecore, powerviolence and hardcore in a rusted blender at high speed, delivered directly by members of Daughters, Dropdead and Soul Control, respectively, creates the concise, well-controlled chaotic hardcore played by Fucking Invincible. With two EP releases and a demo on Atomic Action! Records, It’ll Get Worse Before It Gets Better is the band’s first full-length, a fierce 14-track LP clocking in at 14 minutes.

Everything on this album is tightly executed and professional. It takes very little time to appreciate the clear vocals on top of powerful guitars, bass and drums standing as equals; the production value is on the better end compared to similar releases of the genre, which is important in order to appreciate Alexis Marshall’s onslaught of exploding shouts, sounding somewhere between the likes of Trash Talk and Dropdead. Tracks seem formulaic at times, but there is enough variance between finger bleeding strumming, thudding riffs and trudging bass lines to make the songs distinguishable.

Lyrics remain angry overall, but the focus is shifted on different targets, ranging from society as a whole, to the individual, to the self. Suffering and blame are abundant, and the tone is particularly vicious on some tracks, such as “Ape as Man/Man as Ape,” excreting the attack, “How do they not make themselves fucking sick? Dear America: please slit your own throat; dear America: get fucked.” The upset emotion never ceases, and the same disgust continually carries over.

It’ll Get Worse Before It Gets Better is particularly clean cut; clearly displaying a wealth of experience from musicians performing in chaotic genres in the past, Fucking Invincible almost comes off as sounding like a Providence hardcore supergroup, and, considering the talent involved, they could be considered such. The familiarity and consistency may not result in something groundbreaking, but it makes for an accessible, welcomed addition to the band’s collection.