★★★★★
I've been eagerly awaiting Homewrecker's sophomore LP since A389 put out their last release, 2012's Worms and Dirt. The band hails from Ohio and in the tradition of some of that state's hardest musical exports they play a totally evil-sounding combination of hardcore, metal, thrash and crust. This mixture lands them somewhere in the vicinity of Humanity Is the Devil-era Integrity and In Cold Blood, with just a touch more rawness and chugging insanity...
- www.punknews.org
2015-01-16
★★★★★
A389, a record label dedicated to all things heavy, made a masterstroke of a marketing move this past Halloween. Rather than release a new album on the traditional Tuesday opening, the label decided to release not one, nor two, but three albums on the vigil of All Souls' Day (a Friday). There was Pharaoh's Negative Everything, a very Black Sabbath-inspired album, and there was Sick/Tired's Dissolution, which was thrashy noise rock. But there was one more: Ohio's Homewrecker...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-12-20
★★★★★
Homewrecker began as a bunch of Ohio punks, who pushed themselves and ended up playing powerviolence. Over time, the group realized maybe that wasn't quite violent enough and began injecting their hardcore foundation with increasingly more metal. That trajectory continues with , on which the slow parts are less mosh-inducing and more a nice break from the whiplash of the deadly thrashfest...
- exclaim.ca
2014-10-31
★★★★★
Homewrecker's latest release, Worms and Dirt, opens with a sound clip in which a lady suggests a band are corrupting the young in her society. As the music builds up over her concerns, she says, "Their Satanic music and subversive lyrics threaten to undermine the very fabric of our society. Would you care to hear some of their propaganda?" Fortunately, the listener is given no choice, as the song explodes into the Homewrecker's brand of heavy, metallic hardcore...
- exclaim.ca
2012-06-21
★★★★★
Fusing Black Sabbath's crunch with the femme punk of L7, Homewrecker could've only come from Seattle. This is prime Emerald City sludge with no concessions to pop. From the opening title track, Homewrecker show off their Seattle roots both lyrically and musically. An ode to crashing with the bottle (or any other substance - interpret as you will), it grinds with a Black Sabbath-styled slow jam, capturing that feeling of being totally intoxicated...
- www.ink19.com
2010-08-27
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