Thick, thundering riffs, monstrous breakdowns, and a voice that soars with such impenetrable might, it could instil the fear of God in God himself. For most of us familiar with the Canuck multihyphenate, these are first sounds our minds would conjure when someone mentions Wade MacNeil. For the past 20 years, MacNeil has been a magnate of murderously intense hardcore punk, shredding and screaming up a storm with the likes of Alexisonfire, Gallows, Cancer Bats and Black Lung.
Such is why his latest project, Dooms Children, is such a polarising enigma. Wallops of fuzz and phaser replace the gritty distortion of his hardcore outfits, MacNeil leaning less on crunch and more on cool and cruisy folk, blues and shoegaze flavours. His debut album with the solo project – an eponymous affair that hit
