Convent Guilt - Guns For Hire

Published January 15 2015

*=Staff's pick	Angels In Black Leather* Don't Close Your Eyes Perverse Altar They Took Her Away Guns For Hire* Desert Brat Convict At Arms Stockade

Genre	Heavy Metal	Iron Belshaw	Vocals
Tracks	8	Dario Lastro	Guitar
Running time	37 Min.	Matty	Guitar
Label	Shadow Kingdom Records	Iron Belshaw	Bass
Release	13 January 2015	Brent	Drums
Country	Australia	-	Keyboard
Producer	-
Similar artists	---

Vinyl release: October 7th 2014.

With its debut album, the Australian quartet Convent Guilt displays a desire to give the metal community a lesson in classic metal music, by playing traditional heavy metal including lots of aspects similar to the earlier 80's. The band has really managed to recreate a sound deriving from 3 decades ago, but personally I find myself listening to this record with a little bit of saturation at this present point. I occasionally think that the band's music somehow may seem to mainly be focused on bringing out this older type of sound, rather than to come out with great and unforgettable songs.

In the end putting out memorable songs is what matters the most when people decide what's worth spending money on and what's not and although a number of cool guitar plays are presented, I really can't find something that has the ability to take this album closer to the skies. The vocal performance is definitely not this unit's greatest asset and I actually believe that they would be better off if they were to find a new and powerful singer, who simply also has a better vocal technique than what their current one has.

Quite a good load of the disc's musical content is pretty okay, but at the same time I miss the very best moments as well and some of the material feels somewhat idle, even though the band is supposed to be hungry and strongly activated as newcomers.

Although there are a few good songs in which they are able to come out with both melody and feeling, my final verdict declares this being a rather unexciting experience when push comes to shove. I have heard similar stuff to the music that this band represents countless times before and even if I necessarily don't need something completely fresh to value great music, a little more originality doesn't hurt.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
5	3	6	4	4

Summary
4 chalices of 10 - Tobbe