The Faceless at Myspace

The Faceless are sometimes wrongly dumped in with the Deathcore camp due to their touring partners, record label and a few breakdowns (which came from Death Metal anyway) that is to be founded littered in the sea of technical Melodic Death Metal. Stylistically nothing new is done here, but it’s done in one hell of an entertaining way. Think about a more melodically inclined Necrophagist mixed with Arsis and some of the Later The Crown material with at least one Grave/Bolt Thrower style breakdown and some nifty keyboards thrown into every song. The only black mark on the record is “Horizons of Chaos 2: Hypocrisy” which sounds like Necrophagist masturbating over On Broken Wings corpse and should have been taken off the record. The other 7 tracks are pretty much quality in the guilty Gothenburg wannabe pleasure stakes.

As previously stated its not exactly reinventing the wheel, but in these day and age finding any sort of new record with a melodic death element that isn’t absolute wank is quite an unusual event so this one can be filed along with Arsis, The Absence and Nightrage as nostalgic but not world shattering music for those of who got into heavier metal via discovering the melodic death metal sound by accident sometime in the early 00’s. I can’t be the only one who by somehow hearing an At the Gates or In Flames song realised there was more to metal than just the classics, and if you have had a similar introduction to metal, you might find some value in something that’s a pleasant trip down memory lane without listening to your nearly worn down copy of “Slaughter of the Soul” again.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 @ 4:46 pm Death Metal, Technical Metal
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