Watch Your Step – “Taking you down with me II”
Watch Your Step – “Taking you down with me II” – Basic hardcore punk rock with only two songs going over two minutes and each song is a fast-paced punk slugfest, geared toward the group's angry young male fan base. The album's speedy kinetic energy and lyrical content indicate a large Hatebreed influence. Watch Your Step, gives their compositions the New York City treatment, meaning there are mosh-ready breakdowns and an overall heaviness that is present in most hardcore punk these days. I enjoy the energetic gang vocals on “Take you down with me”. Otherwise there isn’t much to this album that stands out from the rest of the hardcore community. A majority of the songs are laced with predictable hooks, but there are a few stand out songs worth checking out such as “Not Your Friend”, “Your Golden Rule”. The best song on the album, “War More Than Peace” is just fast as hell down your throat with thrash power riffs that you can’t stop from getting your blood pumping. Overall “Taking you down with me II” is good, not great, but well worth checking out. www.watchyourstephc.com
