Intractable - Inner Decay (2012)

   Intractable's one and only full-length album was on the border of old school and new wave tendencies. The interesting paradox about "Inner Decay" was, that even though the two directions the band merged are quite relatable, the audiences of these specific scenes are rarely covering each other.

   Despite Intractable's music definitely had '90s roots, the result sounds quite mid-late '00s influenced. It could be for two possible reasons. First, the groovy thrash metal they played have very similar influences like what metalcore had basically. Since metalcore on the side of major hardcore and groove metal elements also included some simplified "dummy" form of thrash metal, it might be not a surprising outcome if groove/thrash ends up sounding similar to metalcore. The other, maybe even more possible reason is the band members direct influences came by the actual scene, that they most possibly had in the '00s. That decade was also about the fast rising and spreading of metalcore, and even though Intractable preferred thrash hammering instead of melodic switches, their music still had the same '00s hardcore/metalcore touch. The lyrical concept of social criticism is compatible with both styles, therefore it could serve as a unifying bond between, if such a thing is needed on the side of musical analogy. "Inner Decay" might be compatible with both thrash metal and hardcore / metalcore audiences, it's definitely mosh pit suitable music.