Change the Way You Think About Pain
Change the Way You Think About Pain keeps Incendiary's familiar hardcore framework and gives its details more attention. The heavy guitar sound and Brendan Garrone's sharp vocal delivery remain the main attractions. Changes in rhythm and a few broader textures add interest around them. It is a focused record with plenty of force, although the approach becomes less distinctive when several songs use similar patterns.
Bite the Hook establishes the sound quickly. The riffs and drums have a firm impact, while Garrone's rhythmic delivery gives the performance a clear direction. The polished production adds weight.
Jesus Bones gives the drumming a particularly strong role. Its rapid patterns increase the pressure around the guitars, helping the breakdown feel like part of the performance rather than an isolated event. Host/Parasite uses another forceful rhythmic attack, with the vocal hooks keeping a point of connection inside the heavier playing.
Lie of Liberty takes a more measured route into its groove. The guitar sound has a darker character, and its movement towards the breakdown happens without a large break in the song's momentum. The band make that familiar structure work through control of the rhythm and a committed delivery.
C.T.E begins with a slower, heavier guitar setting before moving towards a more agitated pace. Collision adds a different kind of groove, showing how smaller changes in feel can help the record without requiring a completely new style. These details are useful, but the middle stretch still has moments when the songs become harder to distinguish.
The closing title track adds more atmosphere to the band's usual attack. Its longer arrangement allows a less settled mood to develop, and the fading ending leaves a different impression from another abrupt finish. It is a worthwhile expansion of the sound.
The main reservation is variety. The performances are strong, yet some of the repeated shapes make the album's force less surprising as it continues. Even so, Change the Way You Think About Pain has enough rhythmic character and well-placed detail to make its refinement convincing. It gives existing strengths a sharper presentation without pretending every change is a reinvention.
