OPAQUE Resolve (2002) CD

Early 2000s metalcore had a habit of producing records that hit hard and then vanished into the void, passed between kids at shows on burnt CDRs before anyone thought to archive them. Opaque's Resolve is exactly that kind of record.

Out of the American metalcore underground in 2002, Opaque were sitting at the intersection where groove metal's rhythmic punch met the raw aggression of the emerging metalcore scene. Resolve has that specific mid-period heaviness, the kind where breakdowns feel earned rather than formulaic, and the riffs actually go somewhere. It's the sort of release that will click immediately for anyone who spent formative years in the heavier end of the alternative and metal underground.

Full length album on CD. US origin, 2002.

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