| CD REVIEW Light This City |
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Band: Light This City Even though Light This City are from Bay Area, this band isn’t just a Bay Area-Thrash band. Formed in 2002, this band wanted to combine their home town’s number one export product (indeed, Bay Area Thrash à la Testament) with European Death Metal. In 2003, the band released the debut album, The Hero Cycle, through the small label Reflections Of Ruin Records, and soon after, they got signed by Prosthetic Records. After Remains Of The Gods (2005) and Facing The Thousand (2006), Stormchaser is the third Prosthetic-release, and for the better part the album continues where the former one ended. The compositions, however, sound more mature than before, and the whole is better structured, I guess, which is positive. At the other hand, unfortunately, it all is so predictable. That’s not such a big problem, because the performance is more than acceptable, but it might make you loose your attention from time to time, I’m afraid. Laura Nichol’s grunts are as strong as ever, that’s for sure, and both the ‘old’ (Ben Murray, Brian Forbes and Laura) and new (Ryan Hansen and Jon Frost) members handle their instrument perfectly. Worth mentioning are the guest performances by Testament’s Chuck Billy and John Strachan from The Funeral Pyre, and the massive production by Zack Ohren (Cattle Decapitation, Decrepit Birth, Odious Mortem, Brain Drill, All Shall Perish etc.). 75/100 Ivan Tibos. |