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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Canadian alternative rock/punk band led by Brandon Williams.
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  1. Jul 13, 2018
    80
    Death Lust is an extreme album in which Williams bares his raw, overcome soul over ear-splitting guitar noise. As harrowing as it can be, it’s transcendent rock music that feels unparalleled so far this year. Durham Region should be proud.
  2. Jul 16, 2018
    80
    The beauty of Death Lust lies in how Williams makes them all sound like part of the same continuum of disaffection, and how he approaches each mode with a pop songwriter’s ear for concision. Chastity's debut full-length is a brief album, with 10 songs clocking in at 31 minutes total, but the terrain it covers is vast.
  3. Jul 13, 2018
    80
    Death Lust is the sound of a band who has had enough being put down, pushed around and generally told to conform to a society they never really wanted. It’s the sound of disaffected youth demanding to be listened to.
  4. Jul 13, 2018
    80
    Expressing grief, angst, and uncertainty just as loudly with a croon as a scream is no easy task, but Death Lust archives it masterfully.
  5. Aug 28, 2018
    70
    Death Lust expands post-hardcore and its asphyxiating spatializations, giving the genre and the sweaty people in it room to breathe. Reinvigorated by this pneumatic procedure, respiration transpires: Chastity’s pulmonary labor sets the stifling structures of headphone listening alight, giving us light and letting us (mired in the heavy) feel light.
  6. Jul 13, 2018
    60
    Death Lust is an exorcism of youth's most dramatic rehearsals, as well as, musically, an exercise in a concise adaptation of sharp '90s alt-rock between the harder side of Smashing Pumpkins, the softer side of Deftones, and the melodic end of post-hardcore.
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  1. Jul 18, 2018
    9
    Standout tracks: Children, Scary, Heaven Hell Anywhere Else, Suffer, Chains

    Solid debut album. Nice variety of sounds here. At times you
    Standout tracks: Children, Scary, Heaven Hell Anywhere Else, Suffer, Chains

    Solid debut album. Nice variety of sounds here. At times you get a taste of Deftones or Glassjaw, but then you get the chorus of "Suffer" which sounds like it would have ruled a Top 10 at 10 countdown if this was 1995 alternative radio.
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