Album: What The Sea Left Over [EP]
Artist: What The Sea Left Over
Year: 2011
Origin: Vienna/Austria
Genre: Melodic Metalcore/Hardcore
Tracklist:
1. Fragility (Intro)
2. Courtesy
3. Story With Two Endings
4. To The Shore
5. My Sweet Decay
6. July, 22nd
7. See Through You
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Review:
I recently fall over these guys. Still dunno how, but it was more than worth it.
What The Sea Left Over are a 5 Dude combo, hailing from the capital of Austria, also known as Vienna.
Their first release, for free on their Facebook page, includes 7 Tracks of melodic modern Metalcore, overlaid with a lot of atmosphere.
It starts with an quite Intro, which has a well chosen name. Fragility leads the listener into the depths of the sea, to start the journey of this EP.
Followed by a slower Riff the real recordings finally start.
The effort, these young guys put into this, really can be shown everywhere.
A quite solid sound of dark tuned guitars. The two dudes Henrik and Wolfgang know how to compose stuff fitting to a theme. The songs all in all keep a slower speed, but they are done with really wonderful harmonic riffs.
WTSLO also got a rid of the typical Metalcore riffing, yet there are a lot of riffs that sound that way, they put in an own note of originality, which i find is really cool.
A highlight within the first 3 songs is the harmonic main part of the song "Story With Two Endings" this keeps in my ear and lets the song on repeat, you want to hear the rest too.
The melodies and the speed of the songs lets the band musically be settled as melodic Hardcore band too, yet they play a really Metalcore sound.
Shorter and longer guitar solos give the songs some faster feelings, the mood of this record all in all is really cold and reminds of the apocalypse. You can hear that these guys are influenced by Melodic Death Metal too. They tried to bring up every single point of music they like and put it into one, and thats well done.
Florians vocals are low sounding growls and some lower screams. You can't compare them with all this scene crap all around here today, they sound like Metalcore and fit really well to the sound, they keep the originality of the record as well as the guitars do.
Coming to the drums. Sebastian is the guy sitting behind them, he's the man, who is responsible for the full feeling of letting this be a Metalcore band, or better to let this record be a Metal record. Typical and well used and placed double bass kicks between the riff lines of the guitars and down-tempo parts while the guitars are kicking down their hooks. This guy has talent, and so the rest of the band has too. Sebastian contributes a lot to the sound of What The Sea Left Over.
Last but not least, Bassist Bernhard rounds up all riffs of the guitars and drums. His musical voice behind the instruments gives the full and complete feeling what makes the band. Not too fast played but really deep and solid bass is an important factor for a band!
My personal conclusion and wish to the band is "Don't stop"
I really love the ep, the solos and the fast and slow moments on it. The ep has a lot of originality and you guys all show a lot of potential!
Thumbs up.
This record is more than worth a listen!
Support the band!
Seriously.
