Having closed 2014 with a tour supporting Skindred, the London foursome are relaunching their debut album with a view to stepping things up a gear in 2015.
The guitars certainly pack a chunky crunch that dominates the sense and claustrophobic rage of the album. Taking their leads from the likes of Stone Sour and Trivium amongst others, they combine some punchy riffs with a keen ear for a chorus.
‘Find a Way’ chugs and grinds through the verses while shifting into a big chorus while the title track seethes and burns with a fretwork frenzy smashing the mid-section to smithereens. There are more guitar heroics on ‘People are Dying’ but in the main they’re kept under control. The less weighty tracks are accessible, but far from flimsy, and the album as a whole, packed as it is with images of death and destruction is coherent in its pervading darkness and anguish.
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While it does very much sit in the bracket of late 90s / early noughties alt rock and post- Nu-metal, Feral Sun’s nihilistic anthems are likely to have fairly substantial appeal.
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