Nora - Loser's Intuition (2001)

Nora - Loser's Intuition (2001)

I'm just gonna say it. Nora are fucking ace and you should feel bad for not knowing about them. So who the fuck are Nora and why do they have an old-ass womans name?

Well, little jimmy. According to Wikipedia "Nora is a metalcore band from Highland Park, New Jersey." Lovely, and very insightful. To give you a better idea, they were signed to Trustkill during the late 90s, that means Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through, fuckin' THROWDOWN, Poison The Well, Shai Hulud, and Brothers Keeper were label mates.What you can take from this is that they're a legit hardcore band from a time where this type of music had a relative amount of success. In addition to this, vocalist, Carl Severson, owned and run the formidable Ferret Music. Which released records by the likes of skycamefalling, Disembodied, Stretch Arm Strong, Funeral For A Friend, Killswitch Engage, From Autumn To Ashes, among others, and released Converge's best record Petitioning The Empty Sky.

Why they chose their name on the other hand, beats me. Well, it did beat me until I searched the interwebs, apparently they're named after Nora Diniro,a character from the film Pump Up The Volume.

Now, I really like this band. And Loser's Intuition is a fucking ripper. It has a real sludgy, hard rocking edge
to some of the riffing. And while that may sound like a fucking horrible combo when paired with 90s hardcore, the result is monstrous (think Coalesce, DEP, and Hatebreed beating each other to death). The two guitar approach allows for some chunky riffing, harmonised weird ass riffs, and those cool diminished chords (dem parts that sound hella nasty). When compared to other hardcore bands on Trustkill and Ferret, Nora stick to the shouty approach, with the occasonal Rollins-esque spoken monologues. Weird to think, but in 2001, the whole 'i'm shouty one minute, and now i'm tender and emotional the next' deal wasn't the done deal in hardcore.

While Nora may not be so active these days, and Ferret Music has signed a huge amount of shite since Carl handed the company over, we can all rejoice at the awesomeness of the early Nora material.

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