As one of the least appreciated movements in Puerto Rico’s underground indie music scene, metalcore has never really seen any form of spotlight. However, that has never stopped artists from using the sound and experimenting with it to provide positive outlooks on life. With their debut EP, “Millennial Slaves,” which was released a little over a year ago, Mayagüez-based band The Poet manage to deliver a good metalcore project that might help those who are down to continue moving forward despite life’s many challenges. “Millennial Slaves” kicks off with the project’s title track, a metalcore tune that explores the aforementioned positivity while exploring subjects such as class inequality and how there needs to be a change, a theme that is also touched upon in the following song, “Our Revolution.” However, it is the third and fourth tracks, “Stay Strong” and “Renegade,” in the EP that provide some sort of guidance towards finding said change and the band’s proposal is to have unity; that by staying together and putting our differences aside we can make the change we want. “Millennial Slaves” ends with the reflective and introspective tune “Your Memory,” a song which will have listeners thinking about those close who they have lost and thanking them for their greatness. In short, The Poet’s “Millennial Slaves” is a short melodic hardcore and metalcore project that will uplift those who find themselves in the mud while motivating others to bring forth some form of social change.
Listen to “Millennial Slaves” on Spotify All of the images in this article were found on The Poet’s Facebook page
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AuthorFernando E. E. Correa González is the author behind over 30 self-published poetry books. He has been published by literary magazines & journals [Id]entidad, El Vicio del Tintero, Sábanas Magazine, Smaeralit, The Occulum, Tonguas and Hound Magazine. Other than writing, Correa is also the host of FENCast, a podcast dedicated to documenting the Puerto Rican independent art scene. Aside from this, he experiments with filmmaking, photography, drawing, painting, multimedia and transmedia. He currently lives in his native Puerto Rico. Archives
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