| CD REVIEW The Eyes Of A Traitor |
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Band: The Eyes Of A Traitor When the Hertfordshire, UK, based formation The Eyes Of A Traitor was formed, the average age of the members was sixteen, and very soon they got a first album deal with Thirty Days Of Night Records (Bring Me The Horizon, Raise The Dead, Gallows, Eternal Lord etc). However, their debut full length gets released by Listenable, one of the major labels from France when it comes to extreme music. TDON Records did release the band’s debut mini-album, called By Sunset, in 2007. This album lasts for forty minutes and goes on in the vein of that mini-album, but with more professional compositions and a better sound. Basically it means that the band plays a form of melodic and emotional Death Metal with a Metalcore-touch, yet without being Metalcore / Hardcore-inspired too intensively. Both riffs and rhythm section are massive, brutal and, especially, very technical, and vocally the interaction between deadly grunts and a rough throat supports this wall of sound perfectly. Sometimes it is somewhat predictable, I’m afraid, and not the whole album convinces whole the time. But a few moments are impressing, others even ingenious, and I foresee an ominous future… 78/100 Ivan Tibos. |