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AxeWound - Vultures

Published October 11 2012


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=Staff's pick

Vultures
Post Apocalyptic Party
Victim Of The System
Cold
Burn Alive*
Exorchrist*
Collide
Destroy*
Blood Money And Lies
Church Of Nothing*


Genre Metalcore
Liam Cormier
Vocals
Tracks 10
Matt Tuck
Clean vocals
Running time 41 Min.
Matt Tuck
Guitar
Label Search And Destroy
Mike Kingswood
Guitar
Release 01 October 2012
Joe Copcutt
Bass
Country Wales/England/Canada
Jason Bowld
Drums
Producer -
Keyboard
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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Summary



6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe


Related links:

www.axewounduk.com
www.facebook.com/axewounduk