The return of Overcome divided heavy music fans and based on people's reaction, I think you could gage the age of the listener pretty easily. The Great Campaign of Sabotage was raw and brutal. It sounded like Overcome picked right back up where they left off in 1998. And I think that took a lot of people by surprise. Not polished, sampled drums. Not super compressed and gated guitars. Not wide varying, pig squealed vocals. It was old school metalcore. And I loved every bit of it!
No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets picks up right where The Great Campaign of Sabotage left off and ratchets up the brutality.
Verum smacks you right in the face, and it's obvious that the band's status as underground legends is firmly intact. Overcome might not get the same recognition as Zao or Living Sacrifice, but they deserve it. Spirit and Flesh is a circle pit inducing hardcore song. The breakdown in the song is beautiful classic. Not the overdone breakdown you hear in every heavy song these days but a "simple" breakaway from the fast moving pace of the rest of the song. Travail and Indwelling both have great death metal elements to them (Indwelling possbeing a tribute to Stinson's short-lived death metal outfit of the same name).
The best part about No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets, is that it sounds like Overcome. The same Overcome that released The Great Campaign of Sabotage and more importantly, the same Overcome that released Blessed Are The Persecuted. Sure, Stinson's no longer on vocals and the recording technology is obviously upgraded, but Overcome brings a ferocity and packs a punch that metalcore has been missing for a long time!
The return of Overcome has been everything old school SFHC fans could've hope for and more. Hopefully No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets, will finally bring the band the acclaim they've deserved for a long time.
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