Halysis are hailing from Finland, Lahti to be precise and were formed in 2015. This is their debut album and it is a tour de force in aggression and melody.
There are 11 songs on this record with Echoes being kind of intro instrumental like calm before the storm. The music of Halysis is a mixture of melodic death metal, thrash metal, melodic metalcore and power metal. Nice, eh? That means screaming and shouted vocals which quickly transform into clean and beautifully sung voice and fit the atmosphere of the songs perfectly. Also, metalcore groove meets fast thrash metal drumming, aggression fits perfectly into melodic and more catchy guitar hooks and choruses and I am a sucker for such things and love it when band mixes screams into clean and vice versa. Pack it into nice song structures and you get total victory. This is a strong debut record. Recommended songs: Arbiter, Celestial Vortex.
Wow! This is a nice suprise! Head Honcho recently relaased their new record. They are from Seattle and this new record contains seven blasting songs.
The music of Head Honcho borders somewhere between ultrafast melodic hardcore punk with lots of metal influences thus creating technical energy bomb. Couple catchy fast riffs and fast drumming with beautiful melodic and sometimes screaming vocals and backing vocal harmonies and you get fantastic record. Add to that nice, almost poetic personal lyrics which are strong and you can relate to them anytime, you get a keeper. The time flies so quick while listening to this one, you wish more and more. I would love to hear how this band sounds live, I am sure they deliver tons of fist pumping in the air and stage diving energy. Recommended songs: Throne of lies, Mantooth.
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