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Adversary are a five piece band from Manassa Virginia
and they have a sound that crosses In Flames with
Children Of Bodom and Cradle Of Filth to make the
best of American metal. The band’s debut album
‘Singularity’ is doing extremely well
in America for a new band and now it’s time
for Adversary to unleash their music on the UK.
The album opens with ‘Hedonist’ and
wow what an opening track, the guitar riffs come
in thick and fast with enough power to crush every
bone in your body, they are Children Of Bodom
style 100mph riffs that will leave the biggest
of metal fans having wet dreams. The lead vocals
are really brutal which sound something in-between
Anders Friden from In Flames and Dani Filth from
Cradle Of A Filth, the guitar solo during the
song is extremely melodic and there is also moments
more sing-along style vocals come in to mix things
up and add variety to the song.
The rest of the album follows on pretty well
from ‘Hedonist’, more of the same
formula is used in each and every song, but why
not when you know the sound you have developed
works really well. Songs like ‘Manifest
Humility’ and ‘Dying Art’ are
great in the way that they have that perfect melodic
vs. hardcore mixed sound.
You can Cleary see what bands Adversary are influenced
by just by listening to their debut album but
at the same time they manage to keep things original
and have developed their own sound that stands
out really well, you have bands like Trivium,
killswitch Engage, Slipknot etc and you can tell
it’s their songs on the radio just by listening
to a couple of seconds of their music, Adversary
totally have this feel to and it will be more
so when they become bigger and are played on music
stations on a daily basis.
The kind of metal I like is something that doesn’t
fuck about when it comes to heavy riffs, power
and aggressiveness and also has a mixed range
of vocals which range from rip your bollocks off
screams to the more melodic sing-along style of
vocals, and this is exactly the style of metal
that Adversary play and its recorded pretty damn
well on their debut album ‘Singularity’.
If you are fans of any of the bands mentioned
above then you will love these guys, if you are
not it’s still worth giving them a listen
as I think you will crack and end up becoming
a member of the Adversary army.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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William Clapp (Vocals)
Kenny Harrison (Guitars)
Brad Ryder (Guitars)
Daniel Tidwell (Bass)
Justin Green (Drums) |
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1. Hedonis
2. Grand Mistake
3. Singularity
4. In Vino Veritas
5. Manifest Humility
6. By Apathy Undone
7. Ashes Of Faith [Instrumental]
8. Dying Art
9. Romance Of Lies
10. Wisdom In Regret |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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