{"id":26799,"date":"2025-04-02T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=26799"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:17:53","slug":"new-music-revue-drugs-of-faith-destroys-with-efficiency-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/04\/02\/new-music-revue-drugs-of-faith-destroys-with-efficiency-on-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Drugs of Faith destroys with efficiency on new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Drugs-of-Faith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Drugs-of-Faith-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Drugs-of-Faith-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Drugs-of-Faith-677x700.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Drugs-of-Faith-768x794.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Drugs-of-Faith.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drugs of Faith<br \/>\n<i>Asymmetrical<br \/>\n<\/i>(Selfmadegod Records)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>North Virginian metal trio Drugs of Faith has returned with their third LP, <i>Asymmetrical<\/i>, exploding back onto the scene with a timely tackling of modern issues. With each song clocking in at an intense one-to-two-minutes long, the album says a lot with efficiency.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An instrumental \u201cOpening\u201d builds intrigue, followed by eight songs packing a one-two punch of heavy lyrics and hard riffs. The album continues on in a scattershot of sound, wielding good flow and transitions some moments, harsh cuts in others, masterfully reflecting the apocalyptic themes in the lyrics. Finally, the longest song, \u201cConspiratorial,\u201d wraps up in pure instrumental to sit and chew on what you\u2019ve just experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Capturing current anxieties of climate and economic crises, grindcore proves the perfect medium to scream these straight-forward messages without feeling preachy. Wrapped in a title carrying double meanings of societal inequality and raucous variety in tunes, <i>Asymmetrical<\/i> proves a triumphant return leaving me hungry for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs of Faith Asymmetrical (Selfmadegod Records) 4\/5 North Virginian metal trio Drugs of Faith has returned with their third LP, Asymmetrical, exploding back onto the scene with a timely tackling of modern issues. With each song clocking in at an intense one-to-two-minutes long, the album says a lot with efficiency.\u00a0 An instrumental \u201cOpening\u201d builds intrigue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-april-2-2025-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26801,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions\/26801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}