For their third full-length release, Straightfaced was determined to record an album that would raise the bar for hardcore. The plan was to further blur the lines between hardcore, punk and metal while at the same time pushing the sonic envelope to its limit.

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If AC/DC turned into a punk-minded alternative metal band and incorporated some rapping, it might sound something like Straight Faced, whose Pulling Teeth successfully fuses metal's blistering heaviness with punk's nervous energy, anger, and angst. Of course, combining punk and metal was hardly unprecedented in late 2000, which is when this CD came out -- the innovative Motorhead was showing us how compatible the two could be back in the late '70s and early '80s. But not many punk-minded alternative metal ...   [ read more ]

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If AC/DC turned into a punk-minded alternative metal band and incorporated some rapping, it might sound something like Straight Faced, whose Pulling Teeth successfully fuses metal's blistering heaviness with punk's nervous energy, anger, and angst. Of course, combining punk and metal was hardly unprecedented in late 2000, which is when this CD came out -- the innovative Motorhead was showing us how compatible the two could be back in the late '70s and early '80s. But not many punk-minded altern...   [ read more ]

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