Credit where it’s due, this Manchester-based metal quartet don’t hold back and don’t pander to the current vogue for melodic interludes between the heavy sections. ‘Equilibrium’ is a relentless heavy album that hits with a pulverizing force. They don’t piss about with fretwanky solos or other such superfluous decorations, either. Just heads down, thumping power chords all the way, and all at a breakneck speed.
The guitars do deliver melody on occasion, though, imbuing the mid-section of ‘The Process of Being’ with an emotive element – it’s soon swept away in a battery of pummelling percussion and solid chugga-chug guitar riffage, all topped with howling guttural vocals.
The sonic storm rages unabated for the duration of the album right to the very last explosive thrash.
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