Aggressive by Beartooth

Aggressive, Beartooth's second album, came out on Red Bull Records and UNFD in June 2016, two years after Disgusting, and the title isn't false advertising. Caleb Shomo, who started Beartooth in Columbus, Ohio as a studio project where he played every instrument himself, produced it too, and it sounds like one man's vision cranked into the red.

By now there's a real band around him, with Taylor Lumley and Kamron Bradbury on guitars and Oshie Bichar on bass, but the focus stays on Shomo's knack for a hook: riffs that hit like a shove in the pit, then choruses big enough for the whole room to scream back. The title track went out first as a single in April, alongside the album pre-order. "Hated" is the standout, a snarling, bruised anthem with a chorus built for catharsis.

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