Tracklist:
ARCHITECTS:
1. We're all Alone
2. Broken Clocks
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DEAD SWANS:
3. In the Half light
4. Swallow
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*Having to re-write this review after it got deleted with some of my other reviews*
This split was released by underground Leeds-based label Thirty Days Of Night, known for being the first to sign acts such as Bring Me The Horizon, The Gallows and The Plight, available either through download and a limited blue 7”.
After releasing the mammoth that was Ruin in the summer of 2007, the Architects return with their side of this split, with songs that would of easily found it’s place on their 2nd studio offering. Both tracks feature all the prominent aspects of the Architects sound, frantic guitar playing with the use of atonal chords, Sam Carter’s desperate screaming and hard hitting drums. We’re Not Alone consistently chugs through with the distressing guitar chords, changing about ¾ through with guitars going into a finger tapping rhythm and Sam Carter singing in harmony with another voice. Broken Clocks is much of the same with the relentless grinding of guitars and the merciless drum patterns, as with the previous track it slows about ¾ through with a droning guitar and a building drum fill only to unleash back into the swing of things with the help of the extra voice from the Dead Swan’s lead singer. These two tracks don’t give any hint of progression in the Architects sound, they seemed to have stuck with their winning formulae, and if it isn’t broke why fix it, a decent side from the Brighton tech – metallers.
New to the scene, the Dead Swans are according to their label are “awesome American nightmare style hardcore with a slight metal touch”, which I can agree to an extent though these boys don’t sound like anything American I’ve heard, also hailing from Brighton. Their side of the E.P shows much promise with both tracks feeling as those these guys have their lives at stake if they don’t hurry up, with it sounding deranged and desperate to get to the end of the track. In The Half Light displays this through most of the track only to slow down on a thick, meaty, walking-through-a-swamp sludge riff that is in one word is immense. Swallow is more chaotic with the band thrashing harshly through the song and the lead singer fiercely screaming down the microphone, you can hear how driven these guys are to finish the song.
To Conclude, it’s only 4 tracks, but it is 4 great songs that should be heard by anyone into their metal or hardcore, these two bands are in a pond swimming with the great talent of the UK underground scene, and will only be a matter of time before one of these bands outgrow out of the scene.
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