Stick To Your Guns

Comes From The Heart

Comes From The Heart, the Century Media debut from the angriest sounding entity to ever emerge from tranquil Rancho Santa Margarita, California, is a trip. Stick To Your Guns utilize a wide swath of ordinary hardcore influences and somehow manage to breathe life into clean-crooning, linear melodic punk, tough-guy breakdowns, youth-crew ’core and cribbed Pantera riffs-as well as lyrical themes of unity, responsibility and pride-without sounding like their goal is to appeal to everyone on MySpace. The way the band switch from a dark-alley gang-mugging (“We’re What Separates The Heart From The Heartless,” “Tonight’s Entertainment”) to anthemic punk (“Enough Is Enough”) to life-affirming sing-alongs that’ll start pile-ons (“Impact”) is masterfully engaging and, frankly, more than a little surprising. If anything, STYG show that injecting heart, soul and fire into art can trump conventions that have been pushed to the brink of overkill.

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