Debut 7" EP "Chapter Black" by the Bay Area's truest, MENTOR. After a highly underrated demo last year, Mentor is back playing fast aggressive hardcore in the style of 80's OGs such as Youth Korps, Koro & Mecht Mensch taking it's own dark spin on it.Our take: Chapter Black is the debut 7” from this hardcore band out of the Bay Area, California. Like the Texas bands I’m also writing about in this update, Mentor is an 80s-style hardcore band that plays blistering fast, has precise and catchy riffing, and a raw recording style, but the overall presentation is a little different. Instead of sounding like a blown out analog recording, Mentor’s sound is bathed in distortion and reverb effects (particularly on the vocals), which (to me, at least), gives them a vibe that resembles the 80s-leaning bands on Youth Attack like Repos, Suburbanite, and Cadaver Dog. That being said, Mentor is more straight up 80s USHC than those bands, and scratches that itch very well.
