HERE LIES A WARNING-In Keeping Faith CD-EP
Fife metal band making wild music that's not for the faint-hearted, yet what they've managed to do on this three-tracker is produce a set of songs that, while in no way straying from the hurricane of essentially death metal that they purvey, are actually well enjoyable just turned way up loud on your listening device of choice. By and large, this is because they've not lost sight of the song itself as the central point around which everything else revolves and, while we still get the guttural vocals and the howls, we also hear “normal” vocals in there too, and the way they combine the two on the opening track “Enjoying The Little Things” is extremely well done and works a treat. But what you also get is some seriously well arranged music. While the rhythm section hammers it down as you'd expect, the massively thick guitar riffing has a melodic heart to it, and the whole track swings as much as it roars, with the acres of riffing also possessing great dynamics in there too. Add to this, towards the latter part of the track, an undercurrent of expansive lead guitar texture, not to mention the way the riffs twist and turn through their thunder, following the song, and you have one hellishly powerful slice of roaring metal that, amazingly, you really plunge into time after time after time. The title track follows suit, opening in a blaze of guitar chords before the howling rush of vocals enters to jaw-dropping degree as the song flows and shudders, rifle-fire riffs and rhythms alternating with hammering beats and scorching leads, all of which suddenly rise up and incinerate to breathtaking effect as the vocal density continues unabated. The final track is “Never Let Go” and here the band go hell for leather into a world of speedier metal that's one serious adrenaline rush of epic proportions as they judder, thunder and explode, once again the song structure and the dynamics of the twisting and turning arrangement, the foundations on which the track finds repeat-play success.
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