Artist: Evangeline
   Title: Coming Back To Your Sense
   Label: Nerd Sounds Records

The band formally known as Testext were formed in Rome in the late nineties and over the years band members have come and gone.  The band has changed its name to Evangeline after signing to Nerd Sound Records and have finally started working on their debut release.

'Coming Back To Your Senses' is the result of the bands labours over the years and is a fine release, with a combination of styles and genres, from the punk to straight up metal, the album has it all in abundance.

The album itself open up with a gentle almost progressive intro, before things get completely turned around with the up tempo pop punk feel ‘The Silent Scream of Humanity, think Sum 41 with attitude. This same up-tempo feel is carried on into ‘Terrible Machine’, before the heavier brooding metal side of the band comes out on ‘Watch Me Bleeding’ and the fantastic ‘Lost Divine’, with its full pelt drums of Marco attributing to the almost hardcore sound on this one.

But it's back to the more American Punk sound with ‘Mind The Message’ and the varying tempo changes of ‘The War Has Begun’, make for another great track.

The return to the modern metal is imminent after the short intro of scratched vinyl piano then its into ‘Blame It On Me’, a rampaging track that spits the album down the middle with Franz giving his most aggressive vocal account so far.  ‘Gettin Worse’ is one thing this album isn’t doing, as the up tempo feel keeps on coming with ‘Losin Faith’ and ‘Everywhere, Everytime’, before the album comes to a close with guitar fuelled ‘I Sense’, which ends a quite impressive debut from a band that I’m sure will do well on the strength of this release.

Tracklisting:

1. The Silent Scream Of Humanity
2. Watch Me Bleeding
3. Terrible Machine
4. Lost Divine
5. Mind The Message
6. Blame It On Me
7. The War Has Begun
8. Gettin Worse
9. Losin Faith
10. I Sense
11. Everywhere, Everytime

 

                  

 

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