I’d only just finished pissing myself over the daftness of the band’s name after reviewing their ‘Enemy Within’ EP a couple of years ago when this, their debut album, plopped through my letter box. Here they are, looking all serious, brooding and introspective on the album’s cover. The shot says deep, meaningful. Or cringeworthy posers. Vain indeed.
As it happens, well, the product contains a bit of both. Everything I dissed them for back in 2013 still stands: they’re purveyors of precocious, pretentious high-minded metal guffology.
‘I am so afraid this is my end of days’, is the opening line of the title track which opens the album (and also featured on their debut EP) in a flurry of thunderous riffing that’s pure Metallica. There are some fast and fancy fret runs woven over the top of the chugging juggernaut that is the rhythm section, and technically, they’re impressively solid.
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‘Shadow of Yourself’, which first appeared on their debut EP, stands, guitar aloft, proudly straddling the line between emotionally deep and overwrought pomposity, and ‘Lost & Forgotten’ is also culled from their debut, although I’d hesitate to call this a compilation or suggest they’re short on ideas even while dissecting ‘All That Remains,’ previously released on their second EP… Maybe they need to revisit their CD collections ahead of the next release.
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