One of the band's top efforts and one of the year's best overall; highly recommended.   Full text...

On their furious fifth full-length Young Machetes, that lethal combination manifests itself in a set that toggles between searing barnburners like Set Fire to the Face on Fire and seriously twisted pop like Laser Life.  Full text...

Wild, intense and full of energy. "Young Machetes" is a wild spitfire which will leave you speechless after the first listen.  Full text...

Young Machetes is half metal band, half high-school musical, with unpredictable transitions, two-minute songs stretched to the limit of composition, and a few pop concessions that pale in comparison to the softer side of Crimes, bones tossed to a mainstream audience by a band that's far too strange to be this famous.   Full text...

It does a lot to spruce up the sound. It pulls off the throttle and amputates much of the epileptic-fit dynamics of its earlier albums. It uses guitars as instruments instead of bludgeons and gouging ice picks, resorting to art-core riffs learned from dozens of post-hardcore bands.  Full text...

On Young Machetes, the band takes power forward with a mix of early Sonic Youth-style destroy-your-guitar antics and breakneck hardcore punk. Unfortunately, Blood Brothers don't actually make you scared, which any good noise band should. There's less danger here than just motion sickness.  Full text...