Let Them Fall is an Italian melodic hardcore/metalcore band active since 2012.and this is their first full length album, the result of hard work and perseverance through the years.
The album contains 10 tracks of melodic hardcore bordering with metalcore. The lyrics and song titles of the album are inspired by Nordic mythology but in fact through the lyrics you can find motivational charge to find your place in the world and to bring your inner self to peace with who you really are. That is how I understood the lyrics. One of the absolute highlights of the album for me is “Jormund” with its anthemic melodies and chorus it made my skin crawl with goosebumps. The clever use of piano and electronics in the song emphasize the grandeur of Let Them Fall´s music. I usually don´t like metalcore much, I love these guys because they are melodic hardcore band showing where modern hardcore should go to, being original and also energetic. Some scene purists don´t like hardcore to go anywhere from the stripped down lo-fi origins or youth crew days of the 80´s but I already said, the underground scene is like a living, breathing entity, constantly searching, constantly evolving and if we open our eyes and ears we can only grow rich with new experiences and conquer the new horizons.
I said it before and I will say it again, Australian scene rules! So many great bands, so many excellent labels, promoters…
Postscript are Melbourne punks and this is their new e.p. It is a 3 song record and I must admit to all of you who read this, the record is awesome. I sincerely dont know which song is better. “Sorry State” has such a great chorus that I am still in awe and I listened to it a couple of times in a row to make sure I hear it clear. The production of the record is also massive and crispy but powerful. I love the fast and melodic hardcore simplicity of the songs but also technicality of the song structures. “Too Blind To See” has a sing along part that I bet goes well live and “S.O.S.” is a fine mix of political and personal themes. This is for sure, one of the best records in this genre that came out recently, I wait eagerly for the full length.
Antiquus Scriptum were founded in 1998. and these Portuguese black/pagan metal band released this compilation album through This Winter Will Last Forever and it was about time to review it for this zine.
They play very fast, very noisy and brutal black metal mixed with pagan, folk and thrash metal influences. I must admit that I have never heard of this band prior to this album and I like their brutal but also disturbed vision of metal. This is no holds barred war with no prisoners. The keyboard parts somehow add to the dark and merciless darkness of the material and I am afraid that all of you who like your black metal symphonic and melodic will not find comfort in this disonant and eerie soundtrack to the apocalypse. This album contains 8 anthems to past times, darkness, antireligion and death. I loved this record because it rose darkness in me that lingers somewhere deep like a beast in deep slumber, but never ceases to exist through the strange aeons!
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