Strawberry by Prayer Group

For fans of Boris, Sentries, My Wife’s an Angel, crossover hardcore punk, and that voice in the back of your head screaming at the top of its lungs, Strawberry by Prayer Group combines industrial, punk, and sludge to create the ultimate soundtrack to contemporary rage. Maintaining tight arrangements that focus on impactful, almost catchy riffs, Prayer Group leaves most of the meandering to their vocals, which serve as a conduit for our own directionless angst. These vocals constantly breach the containment of the band’s more standard punk song structures, finding their own repetitious, meditative, yet entirely disorganized thought loops that pop in and out of existence, matching our own frustrations that struggle to find purpose in a world entirely unaccountable to our wellbeing. Instead, such ramblings find us shadowboxing until our knuckles bleed, expending our energy into a massive wall of sound as we learn the hopelessness of a supposed free world, left with nothing but the earth-shaking power of our own voices which nonetheless fail to pull us out of our prison.