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Album Review: Bane - Don't Wait Up

Benny Doyle

"the Massachusetts’ quintet would much rather go out swinging than wave the white flag."



The last hurrah for one of hardcore's finest, Bane drop the hammer a final time with Don't Wait Up, an incessant record that shows the Massachusetts' quintet would much rather go out swinging than wave the white flag. There is no faking it here; what you get is real passion, real anger. Yet the band give us these uplifting guitar sounds within the madness, allowing positive light to be found through the darkness of it all. Clearly when frontman Aaron Bedard cries, “I've never been much good at saying goodbye,” on Final Backward Glance, he's lying, because Don't Wait Up is as powerful a note as you could go out on.