Raw In Sect
Red Flows (promo)
Wydane przez Self-financedRok wydania 2010Kraj GreeceNapisał Wouter5
After a demo in 2007 this oddly named act from Attica, Greece now returns. While they were more oriented on their previous outings, they opted for a genre switch choosing the currently popular groove/thrash metal direction. Stylistically, this is similar to fellow Greeks Homo Iratus. Raw In Sect plays a choppy hardcore-esque (especially in the belched vocals) form of death/thrash metal. The pumping grooves and crushing rhythm sections tie this band to the hardcore genre, while the more thrashier sections remind of late Cavalera-era Sepultura ("Chaos AD") and Machine Head ("The More Things Change"). Like those earlier mentioned acts this band needs to have it from the visceral impact of their music, as the cuts of this demo are hardly worth mentioning in the same breath as the established institutions of this genre. There is nothing inherently wrong with this promo EP as it is. Were it not that this particular thing was done originally in the late 1990's its surprising to see how popular it still is within the underground. This is groove/thrash metal for those who never experienced Sepultura's rise with "Chaos AD" or Machine Head's lauded "The More Things Change". The hardcore edge is good enough, but nobody is going to dethrone the Hatebreeds and Madballs of this world anytime soon. The more discerning listener has given up on this genre around the same time that the first Cavalera exited Sepultura and Machine Head jumped the shark/nu-metal bandwagon under the guise of progression. The production of "Red Flows" is solid and the execution formidable, but there's so little evolution possible within the perimeters of this genre. For that reason young upcoming acts will never to able to measure themselves with the pioneers of this genre. A missed chance.
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