Some Girls – Heaven’s Pregnant Teens

Epitaph has definitely been expanding their roster a lot as of late, moving away from the melodic street punk sound and exploring into new genres. Some Girls is a perfect example of that. A band you would never have seen on the label a few years ago is now ready to be eaten up by the label’s fan base with enthusiasm or just spat right back out at them.

Having already released a few albums on the indie hardcore label Deathwish Inc., Some Girls already have a following. The fact that they feature members of prominent bands such as The Locust, Give Up The Ghost, Over My Dead Body, and The Plan To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower probably helps them out a bit. And I’m sure their fans will love this, as Heaven’s Pregnant Teens is easily the hardest, most sporadic, random, brutal onslaught of hardcore I’ve heard in a while.

The songs are all a quick one two punch, ending before even getting into them. The thirteen tracks speed through in under twenty five minutes, and 9 of those minutes are due to the album’s epic closerDeathface; while the remaining dozen tend to land around the one minute mark. There’s not a single clean guitar not the entire time, with every riff and melody being heavily distorted. The bass is fuzzy and the drummer’s unrelenting attack never ends. Top if all off with Wes Eisold’s crazy, harsh, random vocals being spat at you in a near-undecipherable way and you’ve found your new favorite hardcore band.

Even me, a person who holds a great distaste for most of the hardcore genre can see that Some Girls have done something different with Heaven’s Pregnant Teens. They don’t follow a certain structure but branch out all over, and it can be played over and over without hesitation. And while it may not be my number one choice to play, I prefer Epitaph‘s older catalogue sound a bit more than this, hardcore fans will love it – especially fans of bands like Kill Crush Destroy, The Locust or Dear Tonight.