ALMEIDA
- 'Social Media Circus' CD review
Anyone
that picked up these guys' debut 'Fantastic Massacre', or has seen
them live or even heard them before will know that they're mental.
Utter loonatics, no doubt about it. They play a highly technical and
thrashy punk / metal amalgamation (that even breaks for a short
reggae rhythm in the second song and has a circus-y bit of keys in
the fourth) that is relentlessly lightning fast on the drums in
blasts and skate punk rhythms, both riffy and mathcore-twiddly on the
guitars, bass heavy, and vocalled with a combination of deep, demonic
growls, and soaring, power-metal melodies that at times reach
ridiculous heights. Comparisons will always be drawn to bands like
PROTEST THE HERO, but ALMEIDA definitely have their own sound and
style (it's more skatepunk than metal really; think a heavier
PROPAGANDHI), and if you're not daunted by very technical and proggy
song structures, they're an awesome listen, and somehow fantastically
tight live. The whole thing is musically sublime as always, but
credit to Tom because lyrically this is class (I don't know how on
earth he writes to this stuff), and he has some real stand-out
moments on here... but I'll let you find them for yourself. So yeah, an ace follow
up to 'FM', and they've made a video to the shortest song on here,
'Payday', so that would be a great place to start if you like metal /
thrash / prog / tech / skatepunk crossovers...
xox
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