Where they from?
Seoul, South Korea. The Jets won their monthly game on Sunday, this time against the woeful Atlanta Falcons. I danced around my living room like a maniac when Nick Folk made the 55-yard, game-winning field goal. When your team hasn’t made the postseason in 15 years, you gotta find your bright spots. All 1,200 fans at the game sounded very happy.
Why the hype?
In case you haven’t figured it out I am an absolute sucker for any grind band with even the slightest Discordance Axis/Gridlink influence and was thus delightfully surprised when I stumbled upon this band’s debut demo on Bandcamp. HWA has serious Syntax vibes, another incredible DA-influenced band from Los Angeles, as the production is fairly bare-bones and every song is a melodic journey with plenty of emotional twists and turns (kind of like yesterday’s Jet game).
Latest release?
Demo 2025, self-released. Every song here has excellent pacing and good momentum, a rarity for the usual gore-soaked pages of this column. It’s the perfect album for this time of year: watch the leaves fall and frost envelope the ground as the band screams in angular anguish and beauty. I am legitimately excited for the (hopefully) inevitable full-length. Demo of the year in my humble opinion.
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