If you can imagine a crossover between Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Sodom but with its own zest for life and flair for the majestic, Kaine delivers NWOBHM-drenched speed metal at mid-pace with old school riff composition.
The dominant influence being Iron Maiden and other NWOBHM bands, this act strive for moments of great contrast and emotional tension, which they approach through fluent riffology combined with an underlying melodic conflict which resolves itself in either the final segment or middle of each song.
While these songs are energetic and earworm-heavy, they are not poppy, which makes Kaine stand out from the flood of power metal that feels like it confused Destiny’s End with Destiny’s Child, and the feeling of the album is not nostalgia so much as speaking the eternal language of metal.
Tags: Heavy Metal, kaine, NWOBHM, Speed Metal
How about renaming the band “Copium – Midlife crisis’ end”.
Give it up, most stuff posted here recently is shit and there is no such thing as good power metal.
Metal is happily dead as a whole, so let it be drenched in Ledney’s black cum the way it deserves to be, instead of reviving it so it can look dumber than it is.
virtually all of this metal stuff would go on just the same whether or not brett was doing anything about it…or you either…why not form a community around finding the best shit? do you really think anyone visiting this site doesnt have a whole bunch of shit they listen to that they know most of us would hate? who gives a fuck? dumb faggot
lol now this is a based take
Deathspeedraprock
Deathgrindraprock
Deathdoomraprock
Deathrashraprock
Deathsludge
Porno death metal
Egyptian death metal
Viking death metal
Catholic death metal
Satanic death metal
Rappers but are Hawaiian polish and black dykes with cocks
Can it work brett ok?
Is all rap metal bad
What if it was influenced by suffocation and as weird and crazy as snoop dogg?
So says the
The Sauroposideons
Styracosaurus prime raprockzilla
Satanic styxosaurus metal
Stegosaur smilodon simolestes
Can Dylan dryer please wash her cunt before I shove my nagger cock up her ass?
Can prehistoric dyke rap rock work ok?
With emphasis clearly on the lyrics, the music itself isn’t very interesting. Not knocking buddies solos, but there were no standout riffs. No memorable twin guitar harmonies either, which one would expect after being compared to legends of the technique.
Hey Brett, out of non-sexual curiosity, can you play any instruments?
I don’t understand the hate this is getting here. It’s a decent album by a band clearly just writing and playing the music they enjoy without playing the industry game. It’s good to see some good musicians in their 20’s just making good Metal and not worrying about becoming TikTokers or appealing to the narrow minded autistics in the Metal scene (as seen by the responses here – they are utterly toxic anyway).
I found the music and lyrics great and interesting = there were plenty of harmonies so I don’t think some of your readers listened for very long. No attention spans?
When I listen for reviews, I entirely ignore the press release, lyrics, etc and just listen. I have no idea what the lyrics are. Don’t tell the band.
In this case, I went back and re-read the press release because it was very well organized and well-written. You rarely see anything but blather in these documents, but mostly, I want all influences other than the music to be outside of my awareness when I process the music.
Nerd shit, eh
This is how I approach music as well. Making space for my own discernment. I generally don’t know shit about the people making it or their intentions.
I probably won’t listen to it again, but this album was good.
Do you have any intention to review the final At The Gates album that just released?
I am avoiding reviews that are entirely predictable here… what I heard was probably not something that should be reviewed here. But everyone needs a copy of The Red in the Sky is Ours.
Who would have known that the one of the songs on that album is considered a trans anthem by redditors?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/6c9g0w/comment/dhubssk/
What do you think about With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness? Non-Divine and the Break of Autumn have to be two of the best songs they ever wrote in my opinion. I do however think the second half is not as strong as the first half.
After years of having tried to like later At the Gates, I just gave up. I think it misses the ability to change atmosphere like a texture from the first album and goes too hard into technique (which by definition deprecates purpose and communication). Everyone should own The Red in the Sky is Ours, but everything else can vanish and we will all be OK. It’s the Prozak rule: if something vanished tomorrow, would anything be worse? The great era of ATG is essential but if the saccharine-emo era went away, metal would not suffer.
Interestingly I see it as the duality of Swedish character. They are big-hearted people, but when they lose purpose, this turns into Christianity.
When I turned it on all I could think about was fluid. Not bad album but I NEED FLUID DRINK and so I got drunk and arrested because of this album but thats not a bad thing its just about my divorce