Isqarial – “Inheritance”
They have catchy songs and so you’d think that only a jerk would complain. The first song is death metal, more or less. It’s a nice ditty with rolls and blasts and thrashing guitars. Catchy, I tell you. Soon, though, with the clean vocals and everything it just sounds so trendy. Is everyone trying clean singing now? I think these guys love Arch Enemy’s “Burning Bridges”. The vocals are quite like that, which is not a bad thing. Also, and I’m being serious here, I detect a huge Guns ‘n’ Roses/Slash influence with the guitar solos! The bluesiness of them makes a contrast with the melodic thrash. They cover a Jimi Hendrix song called “Fire”, but nothing to run to the record store for, but not bad. It just sounds so trendy, though.