Cage Fight are very clear that they are not the side project of Tesseract guitarist James Monteith. They hold equal status to the math-metal behemoth’s and there is nothing “side” or additional about James’ involvement. They are a full-time entirety that has a lot to say. This is incendiary, incensed hardcore. It drips with violent dissent, disruption, and disillusionment.

It screams at the inadequacies and inequalities it sees all around and makes a valiant rallying cry for us all to do something about it all. Musically it is direct, confrontational, and jagged in all directions. Short, punchy but highly effective. It may be filtered through a core of muscular metal but at its heart, this is pure hardcore punk.