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After winning
the French Rock Hard / Mascot Records contest in 2005 the doors has
literary swung open for Winds Of Torment and after taking a year to come
up with new material for the album, the fruit of the bands labour is the
hard hitting ‘Delighting In Relentless Ignorance’, a heady mix of melodic
metal guitars courtesy of Bertrand and Jerome on lead guitars. The
dark almost thrash/death metal induced vocals full of rage and fury of
front man Xavier, a pulsating rhythm section of Alban on bass guitar and
Jean-Francois on drums.
The album is as
full on as they come but still retains a melodic metal edge guitar sound
that makes the album very listenable to the layman, which would otherwise
put off anyone from even giving a thrash/death metal a chance to sample
the album and drawing their own conclusions by what the album sounds like
and not by preconceptions of the genres.
The album gets
underway with the intro ‘Of Solemn Emptiness’ before unleashing the shear
exuberance of the album with the riff spewn ‘Devoid of Essence’, with
Jean-Francois laying down a rampaging attack on the drums and Bertrand and
Jerome’s fret bleeding guitars all engulfed by the tenacious vocal assault
of Xavier, this is a real mosh pit monster of an opener.
The relentless
attack on the eardrums continues with ‘My Daydreams’ Specters’, a full on
Thrash onslaught with Xavier at his most brutal. Things do slow down to a
rampaging pace with the hard hitting dark tones of ‘The Unspoken Pact’,
before the surprise package of the album as an acoustic guitar comes into
the mix for the beginning of ‘The Other’, but this is short lived as the
band unleash their full force as the track really gets going with its mix
of streaming guitars and thundering back beat as it turns into a death
metal track and washes away the gentle opening with a tsunami of drums and
guitar and angst filled vocals.
‘Swallowing the
Ashes of Guilt’ is another track that starts off from a humble beginning
with just Xavier and a guitar, but as things must the full on metal just
breaks away through the melancholy and stamps its authority on the album.
Once more with Xavier returning too his gruff vocal best and the rest of
the band backing him with a might of guitars and drums in a mix that I
would like to proclaim as Power Thrash.
With the album
almost at a close the band finish off with the two shortest tracks on the
album, both just under five minutes firstly with the more traditional
Thrash Metal sounds of ‘Rules Overload’ and finishing off with the melodic
metal repose of the INSTRUMETAL (no this isn’t a misprint) ‘Within the
Last Rays’. So if you like to hear something a little different from
your everyday Thrash or Death Metal then check out Winds of Torment you
won't be disappointed.
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