THE SEVENTH CROSS - Scorched By The Flames Of Vengeance

THE SEVENTH CROSS
Scorched By The Flames Of Vengeance
Candlelight USA
1/10




On “Scorched By The Flames Of Vengeance,” The Seventh Cross melds early Gothenburg sounds with hardcore. It’s very, very apparent that these guys are no masters of their instruments. You’ll find a pile of chug-chug riffing, and the sort of song arrangements that add up to lots of hair swinging and guitar flipping. Most fifteen year olds that aspire to be the next As I Lay Dying can generally fare better than this.

Although this was supposedly remixed, remastered, etc., that doesn’t stop the levels of the drums from fading in and out with an annoying degree of irregularity. The bell on the ride cymbal of drummer Simon simply must be stopped. The volume of this clanking piece of shit is irritating to the nth degree. Bet five bucks he asked for it to sound like that, too.

Chug-chug-chugga, et al and an untalented Drano barf from frontman Sheep adds to the trash-it factor. It’s excruciating to sit through a whole album of this sub-par, basementish demo-quality garbage, but hey, it’s a review, so you do what you gotta do.

By the time this is all sorted out, not only are there zero tracks worth mentioning, it has me wondering why Candlelight is waiting to ante up on the big Erin Fox solo record.

Seriously, most folks with a miniscule amount of talent could eek out something more creative and enjoyable than this, and they probably wouldn’t have to waste any time and/or cash remixing the damn thing. Caveat Emptor to the max, metal people...


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