From my Discover Weekly, hardcore for our times:
The Product Is YouWhat's it going to take to fucking change
If these habits are ingrained?
When everything comes apart gradually
We ignore what comes to us naturally
If you don't know what the product is
The product is you
If you don't know where the money is
The profit's growing huge
It ends with:
Punishment
Enduring punishment
Indeed.
There was always something mildly repellent to me about that early-aughts Victory Records hardcore. e.g. Snapcase, Strife, etc. (I think of it as Pantera-influenced hardcore, though, the bands themselves would not agree with that label, and indeed, maybe that sound doesn't come from Pantera.)
Incendiary is in that vein – there is a lot of slow breakdown chugging – but feels more closer in the spirit to earlier political hardcore. I haven't heard any self-pity or tough guy biz from them on their latest album. They are definitely thinking about things outside of themselves.