“This phenomenal debut album is a hard hitting slab of savage, bleak metal that seamlessly blends melodies and raw emotions, dark and delicious music with huge riffs and a pounding backbeat, an enticing glimpse into what’s to come from this exceptionally talented band in the future”.
That press release pretty much sums up this debut self titled effort from UK metal band The Parasite Syndicate who have created here not only a sonically pleasing album but a nicely groove oriented bunch of songs. There’s plenty of melody too and the vocals mostly stay on the clean side, only ever straying away to more harsher singing when the time calls for it in the song. Not that it matters much as the riffs and a crystal clear drum sound pretty much drive everything like a well oiled machine, from the opening track “All That We Have” to the more proggier “Ghost” and the fast paced and energetic ender “The Illusionist”.
The guitar tone is great too and works really well at the low ends with the more hardcore riffs, the melodies can sometimes take a little away from overall tone of the song when you start getting into the meat of the songs and occasionally the band will wander off completely like in the more mellower stuff like “Animus” but it’s a small detractor from the majority of the songs that just groove nicely and is what appears to be the core foundations of the bands sound.
The Parasite Syndicate have kicked things off nicely for a debut album and if it’s any indication of where they plan to take their music, then we could potentially be hearing a lot more noise from these guys in the near future.