Heres another 5 song CD from our new favorite metallic Japanese post-rock-chaotic-hardcore band, Envy!!! Envy has become one of the foremost dominant hardcore/"screamo" bands in Japan, a status that has been forged through the past 11 years with a consistently evolving sound. The result is a passionately epic journey through brutal intensity and serene beauty, with densely layered guitars and bass creating quiet, intricate elegence and vocals that range from larynx-shredding power to softly-sung with lyrics entirely in Japanese. A powerful combination of beautiful, anthemic indie rock and crushing metallic hardcore, moving between emotional, intense melodic, jangly, pretty passages and bombastic heaviness, like Mogwai if they were a mid-90's "screamo" band, and with noisy, swirling Sonic Youth/MBV-ish guitars, a maximum melodic noise wall, and technical, brutal song structures sort of like Botch, but WAY heavier, and WAY more intense and beautiful and EPIC than that comparison might suggest. The singing on this switches back and forth from teeth-gritting screaming, full on ferocity, to passionately sung clean vocals. It's AWESOME stuff.