Red Cain
Kindred: Act I
Sliptrick Records
Sometimes metal and rock sound very colourful, tie metal-industrial-techno music into one, like on this album. First of all, it`s a hard&heavy-sounding album when it comes to guitars, also it`s experimental and progressive, but not complicated. The whole album is action-packed with electronic effects which may bring slight difficulties to understand music after just one listening, so be patient, keep listening to the songs and you will discover new nuances in music. It is very vocal melody album - more industrially rugged than heavy metal.
Music arrangements are big thing here. Engaged drumming, concrete guitar consistency swinging a mood of songs like a rainbow in the Canadian sky, where the band comes from. I have the impression that bands like Red Cain derail the old metal stereotype and send it to the sidetracks, trying to replace it with something fresh, maybe for someone else, something new. You have to answer this yourself which style going your way better, right after listening to this album.
I think that music style of Red Cain is more directed to the industrial-rock-gothic audience - what have you, than to the metal audience, who prefers to hear the music as if it were thunders from the dark sky, with a stronger guitar sound which this band did not expose that much.
There are some good sounding songs here; Snakebouquet with power metal guitars, Guillotine with avalanches of drums, atmospheric-ballad-Blood & Gold, groove metal song Hiraeth, melodic-symphonic and more heavy metal track Wing of the Crow...All songs are surrounded by industrial unpredictability.
I also listened to the album several times I have liked the band habit to make their songs sound spectacular.
Maybe there are no hooks or catchy moments here, but there is almost always a melody in the songs, especially the vocals that unite this album and make the music do not fall apart into a thousand small pieces.
I think the production and sound could be done better, with more stronger-metal sound, which is rather recommended when the songs have many instrumental layers that scream for exploration, like on Kindred: Act I. Anyway, it`s a good album.
Music arrangements are big thing here. Engaged drumming, concrete guitar consistency swinging a mood of songs like a rainbow in the Canadian sky, where the band comes from. I have the impression that bands like Red Cain derail the old metal stereotype and send it to the sidetracks, trying to replace it with something fresh, maybe for someone else, something new. You have to answer this yourself which style going your way better, right after listening to this album.
I think that music style of Red Cain is more directed to the industrial-rock-gothic audience - what have you, than to the metal audience, who prefers to hear the music as if it were thunders from the dark sky, with a stronger guitar sound which this band did not expose that much.
There are some good sounding songs here; Snakebouquet with power metal guitars, Guillotine with avalanches of drums, atmospheric-ballad-Blood & Gold, groove metal song Hiraeth, melodic-symphonic and more heavy metal track Wing of the Crow...All songs are surrounded by industrial unpredictability.
I also listened to the album several times I have liked the band habit to make their songs sound spectacular.
Maybe there are no hooks or catchy moments here, but there is almost always a melody in the songs, especially the vocals that unite this album and make the music do not fall apart into a thousand small pieces.
I think the production and sound could be done better, with more stronger-metal sound, which is rather recommended when the songs have many instrumental layers that scream for exploration, like on Kindred: Act I. Anyway, it`s a good album.
01. Guillotine (feat. Wolf of Transilvania)
02. Snakebouquet
03. Zero
04. Hiraeth
05. Blood & Gold
06. Juliet (feat. Daniel Louden)
07. All Is Violence
08. Wing of the Crow (feat. Kobra Paige)
02. Snakebouquet
03. Zero
04. Hiraeth
05. Blood & Gold
06. Juliet (feat. Daniel Louden)
07. All Is Violence
08. Wing of the Crow (feat. Kobra Paige)
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 17.04.2020
Added: 17.04.2020
