Desperation certainly isn’t a new feeling for  INTEGRITY, the hardcore and heavy metal hybridists who’ve been getting low for more than two decades.

But the staggered approach of 'There Ain’t No Living in Life,' from the new record Suicide Black Snake, is somewhat novel: In his backroom rasp, Dwid Hellion doles out dead-end observations about life. As he speaks over a circular guitar line, he suggests an old blues moan, a feeling he confirms when he adds train-whistle sighs with a harmonica.

That surprising sound ignites the heavier side of Integrity, who spend the next three minutes rumbling through a riff and wrenching through a solo meant to push away those worries. When it fades away, though, Hellion returns to gasp the title over that same solemn pattern, handing hope over to the dim future. A389 and Magic Bullet release Suicide Black Snake on June 11.

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