A minute into the opening, title track of Mouth Of Swords (InsideOut), the new album from The Safety Fire, and you’re hit by full and complex layers of progressive metal and rock that reaches back to the ’70s and forward to the future as it takes inspiration from a broad range of themes and styles. Whether it’s chugging riffs or twidly high-pitched dissonant shredding, smooth flowing grooves or erratic rhythms and arpeggios, higher-range vocals or angry shouting, the songs are a conglomeration of many and varied parts. Continue reading
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Palehorse – Harm Starts Here
Palehorse don’t appear to take themselves too seriously, with a few tongue-in-cheek promo shots that include corpsepaint, cups of tea and the morning papers. What is serious though is the cruelty and severity of the cacophony that is their music held within this new album Harm Starts Here and it’s the clashing of these two opposing views that makes the album something worth exploring, if only once. Continue reading
KEN Mode – Entrench
Since forming in1999, Canadians KEN mode has not been strangers to receiving feverish acclaim and devout attention for their intrusive and impacting albums and continually inspiring invention. With the release of their fifth album Entrench the trio from Winnipeg has sculpted their most intensive and compelling, not to forget impressive creative statement yet. With sonic alchemy the band has fused the most incendiary essences of hardcore, noise rock, and their imagination, to create an inflammatory and barbarously contagious incitement which leaves the passions in a delirium of manic and tempestuous glory. Continue reading