Member Since: 10/7/2004
Band Website: geocities.com/pittcore
Band Members:
Influences: Slayer, Pantera, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Devildriver, As I Lay Dying, Chimaira, God Forbid, Hatebreed, Meshuggah, Soulfly, Fear Factory, Lamb of God, Sepultura, Killswitch Engage, The Black Dahlia Murder
Notable bands we have played with: Dead to Fall, Born of Osiris, At All Cost, With Dead Hands Rising, Bleed the Sky, The Esoteric, Psychostick, Dark Haven, Screaming Mechanical BrainShout out to great bands that have passed: Given with Honor, DieSectionAte, Prometheus, Evermourn, Third World Sin, Pillbox, Truth Cell, Terra Firma, Dark Matter, Plant, Trip Hazzard, The Stillborn, The Messiah Complex, Obsidian Shore, Violent By Design
Sounds Like: A demonically possessed frontman, backed up by 2 towering guitar players, with a locked down rhythim section laying down brutal f*cking devastation metal.
Pick up our CD at any of our shows and soon in 7th Heaven on Troost!
Endorphine 2006
1. Kroner
2. Service and Disrespect
3. Nullification
4. Can't Be Saved
5. Less Blessed
6. Reprieve
7. Epitome
8. Status Quo
9. Feeble Mindset
10. One Question
11. Operation Zero
12. Irritation (under my skin)
Pittcore - Endorphine CD Review on the Pitch Weekly
By Andrew Miller
Article Published Sep 7, 2006
At the dawn of the decade, Pittcore shared stages at now-defunct venues such as Niener's and The Bunker with rap-metal bands. Even at the time, frontman Wes Kennon never employed a hip-hop cadence, preferring instead a feral fire-belch. However, N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton clearly influenced this Kansas City quintet at some point in its evolution. "Serve and Disrespect" offers the most obvious parallels, with its co-opting of the "Fuck tha Police" rallying cry, but the whole album crackles with a profane, hateful anger seldom heard since the earliest days of gangsta rap. Sonically, Pittcore conjures Slipknot (especially the pots-and-pans percussion) and Soulfly (Kennon rivals Max Cavalera in ferocity, if not tonal fullness and enunciation). With the constant clicking of double bass drums and the clockwork detonations, Endorphine can be numbing. Dual-guitar interplay (one plays an eerie lead while the other pounds a downtuned riff) gives the group some melodic presence, but Kennon's occasional stabs at tuneful singing never really register. Musically blunt and lyrically monochromatic, Pittcore draws strength from its primal attitude, which gives Endorphine a brutal cathartic charge that many technically driven, eloquent metal albums lack.
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