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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Candy, Good to Feel (2018)




By PaulySure

Candy is a band with a name so happy, yet with a sound so mean. Hailing from Richmond—a somewhat overlooked city in the world of metal, but one that just keeps churning out great groups (i.e., Municipal Waste/Iron Reagan, Inter Arma, and Windhand just in recent years)— this five-piece band means business. Clocking in at just under 20 minutes, Good to Feel is a crossover thrash dream. It’s quick and it’s pissed (with a small surprise right at the end). For a band that on the surface seems so happy and positive (i.e., name and album title), tracks with titles like “Lust for Destruction,” “Systematic Death,” and “Human Target” (which happens to be my favorite track on the album) certainly prove otherwise. Good to Feelis probably my favorite crossover record since Power Trip’s 2017 album Nightmare Logic.While not quite on par with the aforementioned band (seriously, Power Trip is fucking GOOD, Kerrang seems to agree with me: https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-50-best-american-metal-bands-from-the-past-decade/), Candy’s debut definitely demonstrates a band with places to go. The album was released through Triple-B records (which just recently put out a great record from Fuming Mouth, which I might also review). Good to Feel can be listened to through their bandcamp: https://candygonnadie.bandcamp.com/album/good-to-feel. 



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