Review
No Cure open It Is Going To Get Dark with “How did we get here?”—then answer with 32 minutes of down-tuned violence. Their debut operates in the narrow, volatile space between metallic hardcore, death metal, and deathcore: frenetic guitars, bludgeoning drums, gang vocals, and Blaythe Steuer’s wide range of abrasive screams. Distorted Sound calls it “gritty” and “explosive,” while Wonderbox Metal hears a “raging, bone-breaking record” built from lethal groove and venomous hooks.
The record’s anger is broader than No Cure’s earlier, more inward-looking work, turning toward societal collapse, addiction, revenge, and the band’s uncompromising straight-edge identity. Guest spots from Jayway, Vincent Bennett, and Tyler Short add variation without softening the attack; even the rap passage on “Brain Matter Displacement” reportedly “works way better than the naysayers” might expect. Beneath the battering, the closing “Everything I Love Is Dead Or Dying” reveals the album’s emotional core: not nihilism, but grief, conviction, and a search for solidarity while “the world is falling apart.”
