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People who listen to metal and hardcore are a very fickle bunch. It doesn't take much to rise to the top ranks of either genre but the turnover rate for sub genres, movements and more specifically bands to fall to the wayside. What most of these bands do is they keep "evolving" with whatever the scene is at the time. From wearing make-up to growing a beard to writing songs with breakdowns to writing songs with Southern rock influenced leads. Whatever one good band does then millions more will imitate it until people are ostracized for such choices.

What if a band change because of their own inclination as opposed to what might sell? Heartache and Bloodloss have been a band since 2003, which can obviously have an effect on the dynamics of a band. Suffering many line-up changes, including the loss of some of their original members, their music has to adapt in response to this. Brandishing a "FUCK YOU" attitude that is par for the course for any good LA band, they chose to forgo the histrionics of both musical styles that they are avid fans of to become what they are now.

Did they go softer? No, in fact, they are even heavier than before. What is evident now though that wasn't in previous recordings is a capacity to write ethereally melodic music that is tempered by the forceful and hard-edged vocals of Lalo Macias. Whereas their previous vocalists tended to fixate on the high/lows mentality of most modern metal singers. Lalo's goes for more of a powerfully aggressive screaming style that is reminiscent of such greats as Jeff Moreira of Poison the Well and Karl Schubach of Misery Signals.

"What we used to sound like represented where we were at the time and what we were influenced by. This is still us but more refined and much more focused as songwriters." Tony Ibarra, the band's bassist, offers up as an explanation for the absence of more classically influenced metallic riffs and shredding solos.

"Through touring, recording and actually having to write as a three piece without a second guitarist or a vocalist present; we really had to become something bigger and better than we were. We didn't want to just be a glossy, touch up of what we had been before."

They aren't that, this never crop of songs is proof that they have grown as well as the fact that they will continue to grow as their career progresses.

"We really just don't care about what other people are doing. I mean, we like and respect a ton of musicians from so many different genres but you can't let it effect you too much or else it starts to bleed into what you do. These songs on our EP are us basically tuning everything else out and making the music we want to make without being scared that no one is going to dance to it at shows." Ibarra says this with the utmost confidence which is one of the band's many positive traits.

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