Shatter Silence
Shatter Silence
Independent CD
Third full length of Japanese Shatter Silence brings lots of remarkable music including 10 songs in total and I tell you what... They let that dragon fly high and breath fire in each and every song on this album.
In times when there was a little talking about Gothenburg scene with bands like In Flames, The Haunted and North Polish band Demise. You also could bring a name Shatter Silence to the table despising their nationality and easily rolls with those bands as this CD is much sounding like those ones with much more dose of thrash in general. Actually, better say this is thrash album but with death metaI vocals or some might say hard core ones. I can`t make any comparison to Asian scene basically knowing barely few bands so I do not even suppose to try, having that little knowledge about undiscovered scene yet. I stick to my guns then and go with what the band has to offer.
This release has very nice artworks which are a creation of Nikolas Sundin and the album is produced by guitarist of the band which gentleman is named Yamanaka Takahiro. This is very professional sounding album and is one of factors making those tracks admirable in return to listener. Those songs are guitar intense on quite speed with all its melodic gems and very wise thrash songs. Guitars riffs are just insane and packed with incredible pace changes and great harmonies that are both wild and angry through technicality of the compositions. Those are genuine violent and clever songs and I was head banging like crazy even if I just turn 40 today. All songs here are alike tornados that brings the wave of fresh ass kicking metal as its best and pretty much needed.
However, I could stand in opposition to the band for a while and say that they are missing a bit oriental influences in music that should point them more clearly as a band from Japan without looking at their biography facts. They are very European in song structures and this CD is fucking great but should show some signs of Asian metal and that`d be much better appreciated.
The album`s decency is flawless. I do not really care that it is not very new but certainly I can`t get away from songs that are mixed and mastered with such solicitude and punching fast to kill. A terrific album with incredible guitar work.
Review by Slawek Migacz
In times when there was a little talking about Gothenburg scene with bands like In Flames, The Haunted and North Polish band Demise. You also could bring a name Shatter Silence to the table despising their nationality and easily rolls with those bands as this CD is much sounding like those ones with much more dose of thrash in general. Actually, better say this is thrash album but with death metaI vocals or some might say hard core ones. I can`t make any comparison to Asian scene basically knowing barely few bands so I do not even suppose to try, having that little knowledge about undiscovered scene yet. I stick to my guns then and go with what the band has to offer.
This release has very nice artworks which are a creation of Nikolas Sundin and the album is produced by guitarist of the band which gentleman is named Yamanaka Takahiro. This is very professional sounding album and is one of factors making those tracks admirable in return to listener. Those songs are guitar intense on quite speed with all its melodic gems and very wise thrash songs. Guitars riffs are just insane and packed with incredible pace changes and great harmonies that are both wild and angry through technicality of the compositions. Those are genuine violent and clever songs and I was head banging like crazy even if I just turn 40 today. All songs here are alike tornados that brings the wave of fresh ass kicking metal as its best and pretty much needed.
However, I could stand in opposition to the band for a while and say that they are missing a bit oriental influences in music that should point them more clearly as a band from Japan without looking at their biography facts. They are very European in song structures and this CD is fucking great but should show some signs of Asian metal and that`d be much better appreciated.
The album`s decency is flawless. I do not really care that it is not very new but certainly I can`t get away from songs that are mixed and mastered with such solicitude and punching fast to kill. A terrific album with incredible guitar work.
Review by Slawek Migacz
