Mentor: Chapter Black 7″

Description

Debut 7″ EP “Chapter Black” by the Bay Area’s truest, MENTOR. After a highly underrated demo last year, Mentor is back playing fast aggressive hardcore in the style of 80’s OGs such as Youth Korps, Koro & Mecht Mensch taking it’s own dark spin on it.

Our take: Chapter Black is the debut 7 from this hardcore band out of the Bay Area, California. Like the Texas bands Im also writing about in this update, Mentor is an 80s-style hardcore band that plays blistering fast, has precise and catchy riffing, and a raw recording style, but the overall presentation is a little different. Instead of sounding like a blown out analog recording, Mentors sound is bathed in distortion and reverb effects (particularly on the vocals), which (to me, at least), gives them a vibe that resembles the 80s-leaning bands on Youth Attack like Repos, Suburbanite, and Cadaver Dog. That being said, Mentor is more straight up 80s USHC than those bands, and scratches that itch very well.