From Earth – Dark Waves
Dutch headbangers From Earth are furious in brutality in their full length "Dark Waves", where they demonstrate stellar musicianship skills where we see a hearty crafting of progressive metal, groove metal and anything related to being balls out Heavy! "Dark Waves" is a superb album, and it delves into the influences of Lamb Of God and Gojira in which the record heavily reminded me of. Without going into incredulous babble of why you should listen to "Dark Waves", I can say that this album really defines modern metal. Everything from the pounding double bass, groovy riffs, harsh vocals, melodic singing, great production and technical rhythms, this is an album that I feel captures everything about what we love about metal from the past, and metal that is present. No this is not another teen-angst ridden band with nothing on their mind then metalcore riffs that we’ve already heard a thousand times before, this is a band that crafts everything that makes metal heavy, and combines it into one huge head bang ritual which metalheads must obey too when listening to this release!
One of the things I like most about this album is that you can distinguish each song from each other without it sounding like the album is just the same song on 12 different tracks, which honestly is a problem with a lot of metal bands these days. No, From Earth have crafted an album that differentiates itself from the norm and goes into different sections that I didn’t see coming. An example of this is the band I mentioned earlier being Gojira, there were sections from this album that sounded like they could’ve been a part of Gojira’s “The Way Of All Flesh” and “L’Enfant Sauvage” albums. It was moments like these that made me love the band even more, because one song does not tell the band’s full repertoire, instead, the whole album needs to be listened too so you can hear from the wicked solos to the djent-y rhythms the different influences the band has and how they are used in each song differently.
From Earth’s "Dark Waves" would’ve made it on my best albums of 2014 list if I had heard it by then, however, if it was released this year, it most definitely would’ve been! From Earth is a band that needs to be recognised, "Dark Waves" is a modern metal summersault that brings a whole lot of headbangs as well as originality, check this release out! \m/
One of the things I like most about this album is that you can distinguish each song from each other without it sounding like the album is just the same song on 12 different tracks, which honestly is a problem with a lot of metal bands these days. No, From Earth have crafted an album that differentiates itself from the norm and goes into different sections that I didn’t see coming. An example of this is the band I mentioned earlier being Gojira, there were sections from this album that sounded like they could’ve been a part of Gojira’s “The Way Of All Flesh” and “L’Enfant Sauvage” albums. It was moments like these that made me love the band even more, because one song does not tell the band’s full repertoire, instead, the whole album needs to be listened too so you can hear from the wicked solos to the djent-y rhythms the different influences the band has and how they are used in each song differently.
From Earth’s "Dark Waves" would’ve made it on my best albums of 2014 list if I had heard it by then, however, if it was released this year, it most definitely would’ve been! From Earth is a band that needs to be recognised, "Dark Waves" is a modern metal summersault that brings a whole lot of headbangs as well as originality, check this release out! \m/
- The Fallen Ones
- Fragment Of Creation
- Dark Center
- Blood Runs Cold
- Perfect Storm
- Libera Nos
- The Longest Fight
- Into The Abyss
- Godforsaken
- Age Of Deceit
- New Light
