AxeWound - Vultures |
Published October 11 2012
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Vultures |
| Genre | Metalcore |
Liam Cormier
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 10 |
Matt Tuck
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Clean vocals
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| Running time | 41 Min. |
Matt Tuck
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Guitar
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| Label | Search And Destroy |
Mike Kingswood
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Guitar
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| Release | 01 October 2012 |
Joe Copcutt
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Bass
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| Country | Wales/England/Canada |
Jason Bowld
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Drums
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| Producer | - |
Keyboard
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| Similar artists | --- | ||
Originally formed as a side project earlier this year by singer / guitarist Matt Tuck of Bullet For My Valentine, the British/Canadian metalcore quintet AxeWound now release their debut. In this space I could write which bands the members usually play in or are former members of, but I choose not to. Having that said, let's focus on what they have created here and now instead.
Vultures includes heavy riffing, both slow and ripping, a speedy and thunderous drumplay, a heavy bassplay, a shouting lead vocalist and a second vocalist singing the clean and melodic parts. Sounds like we've heard the story before, but that necessarily don't equal to nothing listenable. It's angry and mean metal in a mix with heavy metal parts. Also the album's production is making the music sound more violent, fierce and brutal than it in reality actually is.
It opens in rage with the furious title track and continues with the mean and partly heavy song Post Apocalyptic Party and the rabid Victim Of The System, before turning into a more melodic and heavier side and also more riff oriented style with Cold, which also functions as the start of the clean sung parts by Tuck. With Burn Alive we're back to anger again, even if that song also has melodic parts. Exorchrist is the inevitable so called Bullet For My Valentine song on this record, much due to the vocal melodies and the semi-ballad Collide is close to fit that description as well. Destroy is both angry and catchy with riffs and is my favorite track. When reaching the end of the record with Blood, Money And Lies and Church Of Nothing we're back on square one again.
This album's songs, not in order, are divided into two
directions. Not entirely true, but about half of the songs are straight
metalcore as somewhat described in paragraph two and the remaining songs
are more melodic and captivating in a different aspect, even if most
of them have the same touch. The differences are floating, as there
is no specific straight line between the songs and somehow this makes
the album rather diverse within the genre. To sum things up: A good
record, though a bit up and down with highs and lows, that will definitely
get a few more spins in my home.
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6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe |
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