Album: Keeper Of The Gates
Artist: Hound Of Hades
Year: 2011
Origin: Arizona/USA
Genre: Death Metal, Melodic Deathcore
For fans of: The Black Dahlia Murder, Woe Of Tyrants, almost everything thats brutal and melodic.
Tracklist:
1. Galton's Theory
2. Mantracker
3. A Blessing, A Curse
4. Lens Of Truth
5. In Loving Memory
6. The Most Dangerous Game
7. Prophecies
8. Keeper Of The Gates
3. A Blessing, A Curse
4. Lens Of Truth
5. In Loving Memory
6. The Most Dangerous Game
7. Prophecies
8. Keeper Of The Gates
Review:
"Keeper Of The Gates" is a brew of 8 songs that could directly come from hell.
As the cover speaks for itself, this album seems really much promising. This beast is unleashing hell!
Hound Of Hades' first release may just be a preview of what's coming in their future as band.
From the characteristics of the modern metal and core scene, this album would end really fast in the category Deathcore. But these guys are more then just Deathcore.
The mixture of heavy breakdowns and mind blowing fast guitar solos makes this release a great modern Death Metal album!
As fast as a blastbeat ends in a breakdown, the breakdown already leads into a great harmonic solo.
Great sweeps and catchy ideas. The riffing is pretty fast, no songs has a slower passage, this album keeps smashing through the music player.
Great sweeps and catchy ideas. The riffing is pretty fast, no songs has a slower passage, this album keeps smashing through the music player.
Hound Of Hades come up with a lot of energy, which will be in evidence from the first song.
The vocals contain every type of brutal voices. Deep and long growls that wish to slit your throat, perverse and fucked up great screams in The Black Dahlia Murder style will also rip the listeners bodies apart. There should be something for everyone, though you're not a fag, because then this is a step to hard for you. So NO clean vocals, as expected. And this has to be!
The instrumental work from the members is impressing and surprisingly pretty capable. For a first release these guys really show up enormous potential.
All songs are similar to each other. But a band should not change the style that often, and never within one release. Expanding their style and working on themselves, these guys can really grow big. And i wish it for them. For me this album is just a great release and the bands' effort paid itself. One of the less "Deathcore" albums, which is not breakdown-overloaded. I also wouldn't call this Deathcore. Maybe something between, Deathcore, Metalcore, Death Metal and Melodic. They have similarity to The Black Dahlia Murder, and since i have always been a big fan of them, i really dig these guys! Keep it going like this guys!
Support these guys and definitely check them out! ♥
