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Danish metal
heads As We Fight return to the fold with 'Midnight Tornado', the bands
second album and most ferocious effort so far.
This blend of
Scandinavian metalcore sound, mixed with the familiar metal guitars and
thumping double kick drum, rates high among the youth market of today and
that’s where the bands market lies.
The band have
spent most of the period between this and their debut album 'Black Nails
and Bloody Wrists' conquering the European festival scene, with includes
more than twenty festival appearances throughout Europe, together with
shows in Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden and their home Denmark.
The album itself
is pure aggressive hardcore metal at its extreme, especially the twin
vocal assault of Jason Campbell and Laurits Medom, who use the mike as an
extension of themselves as they put every inch of guts and sweat into
their vocal performance, both live and on record, so much so the band
recently won the Danish Metal Award for best live band.
The album is
pure full on metal from the start with ‘Escaping The Poisoned Hands Of
Despair’ and ‘Where Eagles Turn’ just ripping out the sheer aggressive
primeval hardcore tone that fans of the genre are just going to love to
bits.
The album
continues its assault on the senses with ‘Dead End Streets’, a more guitar
fuelled attack than the previous two tracks, but still that hardcore
aggressive vocals style dominates the track.
The tempo is
picked up with ‘Standing At The Gates Of Failure’, the blistering ‘Coldhearted’,
and the riff drenched darker tones ‘Breathe The Disease’.
The pace and
tempo of the album is just mind bending as we reach the halfway point of
the album. The intensity seems to increase with the double kick drum
seemingly dominating the tracks like ‘Annihilation’ and ‘Slay The First
Born’, whereas the likes of ‘Left In Torment’ and ‘The Orchestra Of
Death’ are strewn with some fantastic metal guitar.
The album closes
with two thunderous hardcore tracks, firstly ‘The Path of Death’ with
Campbell giving his most commanding vocal performance of the album, before
finishing off the album with the bass ridden angst of ‘This Fuck Is My
Last Goodbye’. Both of which round off an album of the most intense
hardcore you’ll hear this year. |
