12/21/2023 0 Comments Prey for mac review![]() Gunface, the excellently named lead guitarist, is at the top of his game, opting to make his talent a little more obvious this time around whileĪs per usual, the group uses a well-placed instrumental as a temporary cessation from the otherwise relentless aggression. While it could do with some of the vocal variation found on the first release, the vocals are still excellently guttural in an open-throaty kind of way and they're certainly presented in a more effective manner than on the last disc. It's a little less playful but excellently executed. It mixes the best parts from the first disc, the clichéd parts found on Clients and does so without the quirks found on either. Vocalist Guy Kozowyk claimed this would be the definitive Red Chord album and I'm not about to disagree. Even so, they're finely honed for a live setting. The breakdowns are your typical half-time affair, and while they're not as egregiously used as the ones found on Clients, they still come off a little contrived. The typically fast, often blasted parts are habitually accompanied by the band's trademark usage of pinch harmonics and, as with the last disc, the album is somewhat marred by breakdowns. Tracks typically fluctuate between mid-paced death metal and fast-paced grindcore, but more often than not the two styles converge seamlessly. The sound on the album is a near-consistent barrage of tempo changes, brutality, technicality and breakdowns. While it's awesome to hear parts that remind you of the greatness found on earlier tracks like "Nihilist", it's safe to say that the very same parts lose a little impact the second time around. It's made blatantly obvious that the band is trying to recapture some of their fans, but at times it's made a little too obvious. Prey for Eyes takes the unpredictability of the first album and runs with it. We've now reached the group's third disc and I can safely say they've got their feet firmly in place once more while surely it's not a total return to form, it at least tells us that Clients was in every way evincive of a sophomore slump, which I guess was inevitable upon considering just how good their first disc actually was. It's not to say Clients was bad, it was just significantly worse than it should have been. And the music, well, it was plagued by extended breakdowns, half-time mediocrity and out of place clean semi-spoken calls. The relatively raw production of the first album was exchanged for an overly polished, typical genericore sound. The vocals were less varied, equally deep and twice as throaty. Clients was, using all effective reasoning, extremely average. The album had the band quite literally getting their foot in the door they created a seminal album in a movement that was just picking up steam, and they did it with their first album.Īnd then came Clients, and, pardon the atrocious metaphor, the door kept spinning. Titled Fused Together In Revolving Doors, the album was quite literally a fusion of death metal and grindcore, an obvious sentiment, but it's actually the last bit of the title I'm referring to. I don't think anybody could have, or would have, predicted just how apt the Red Chord's first album title would become. Review Summary: Prey for Eyes mixes the best parts from the first disc, some of the clichéd parts found on Clients and does so without the quirks found on either.
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