Some Girls – Heaven's Pregnant Teens (2006)
Album Review
By 2006, Some Girls had already become one of the most unpredictable names to emerge from San Diego's fertile hardcore scene. Featuring members with roots in The Locust, Unbroken, Give Up The Ghost, and American Nightmare, the band never played by hardcore's rulebook. Instead, Heaven's Pregnant Teens takes 13 tracks of feral noise, mathcore, hardcore, and noise rock, then throws them together with the sort of reckless confidence that only a band this talented could pull off.
Every song feels like it's seconds away from imploding. Robotic, chaotic. Writing stop guitar lines collide with frantic drumming while Wes Eisold delivers every lyric like a man broadcasting from the middle of a nervous breakdown. The riffs scrape and squeal rather than groove, the rhythms constantly shift beneath your feet, and the entire record radiates a suffocating sense of tension. It's hostile, ugly, and utterly exhilarating.
Yet beneath all the glorious chaos lies a frightening level of precision. These aren't random explosions of noise—they're carefully orchestrated sonic collisions. The album constantly toys with dynamics, dropping from moments of eerie restraint into bursts of absolute violence without warning. That unpredictability keeps Heaven's Pregnant Teens gripping from its opening blast to its final, scorched-earth conclusion.
Nearly two decades later, the record still sounds like it was recorded to make listeners uncomfortable. While many heavy records from the mid 2000s chased polished production and crowd pleasing breakdowns, Some Girls embraced abrasion, dissonance, and pure confrontation. It's an album that refuses to compromise, refuses to slow down, and refuses to fit neatly into any one genre.
Heaven's Pregnant Teens isn't an easy listen and that's precisely the point. It's a thrilling, anxiety-inducing assault that captures Some Girls at their most fearless, proving that the scariest bands aren't always the loudest they're the ones willing to sound completely unhinged.
Rating: 7.5/10
Review
by
Michael Benesh