Band: Nothing Left For Tomorrow
Title: Nightbreed
Label: Own Release
Distribution: xxx
Release date: Autumn 2010
Review: CD

The Canadian formation Nothing Left For Tomorrow, once formed as Thrash / Crossover-combo A.C.O.A., is one of those many bands nowadays with a female shouter. Nothing wrong with that, as long as they scream or grunt the right way, of course. And having good looks, well, it does help too, isn’t it?
No, seriously, in this band’s case, the vocalist, Yasmina, does a splendid job. I know better female grunters, yet I’ve heard worse too. Most of the time she uses a thrashy scream, sometimes deep grunting, and she makes use of melodic vocals too, yet these ones are, well, not always that nice to listen at.
Musically the whole goes the same way: there’s much better material, yet worse too, so: (just above) average. Nightbreed stands for forty minutes of groovy and grooving mid-tempo Thrash Metal with a nineties attitude and a Death Metal orientation. The band certainly brings nothing new, but from time to time they try to approach the whole with their own ideas, and therefore this album is much stronger than their 2006-mini Of What Once Was. Yet most of the time this material does not thrill that much, for sounding like adepts of Nuclear Assault, Overkill, Forbidden or Megadeth too often. …the slower way, indeed…

70/100

Ivan Tibos.