Hails my fellow headbangers. Guess who’s back with more
heavy fucking metal? Me! with my awesome instrumental skills. Nope! Just
kidding… I bring you something special, the UK based alternative metallers Never A Hero with their newest release
‘UnEvolution’.
Before starting tearing down the band’s work i need to
elucitade an important issue. If you don’t like alternative metal you can stop
reading right now! If you don’t like nu-metal don’t bother reading these lines!
If you don’t like the fusion between metal and dubstep, for your own sake,
leave this page! If you’re too cool to dance this is not your shit, better turn
back!
Never A Hero is a
band that establishes the boundaries between what’s metal and what’s not metal.
The band stays right in the middle of this duality. On one hand they are,
unquestionably, metal musicians. On the other hand, they extract so much genres
of music that they end up leaving their listeners a bit skeptical towards their
music style. To tell the truth, at the beginning, I was also skeptical about
their music, but after a few listens I think I figured out the band’s purpose –
Experimentalism! (sorry if I’m wrong about this) Lets agree in saying that they
are crack-a-jack players of extreme fusion music and that alternative/experimental
metal is the accurate name for their music.
For me, the album ‘UnEvolution’ is a cool breed… adding
electronic elements to metal is the same as blending cola with whiskey. I think
whiskey is a great drink. I think cola is a nice drink. When you mix those two
drinks together the result is also good. However, I prefer whiskey. Spite of
the fact I don’t like my metal with danceable music I admit that Never A Hero’s music is a great cross of
various components. Besides, I’m finding outstanding ingredientes in their
musical character that I like to the extent of headbanging while I’m writing
these same lines. Take the song ‘Mr. Munchausen’ as an exemple. This tune shows
a very nu-metal side of the band. It sounds very Linkin Park. I also like the
way how the back vocals are used in the song ‘Nightboy’, specially the heavy
growls. This song reminds me of the 90’s punk bands like Rise Against and AFI.
The song ‘Not Too Cool To Dance’ reminds me of P.O.D on drugs – much faster and
with dubstep in the mixture (not a bad compliment).
What I find really awesome about these guys is that they are
capable of presenting a clean-cut sound without being confusing. The wide
variety of styles used is part of them and that’s something that makes them
unique to the point of making them a reference band for others. In the end and
notwithstanding the comparisons I made above, Never A Hero rises as a singular act with an unparalleled sonority.
With Phrixus, the lead singer, taking the listeners through
the lyrics, Mickey Thin playing the guitar and doing vocals, Kaji playing the
lead guitar, KB playing the bass and also doing vocals, Daisy Lay playing the
drums, the band is complete and preared to ignite you ears.
If you like to try new things and you’re into modern extreme
music I recommend Never A Hero and
their new album ‘UnEvolution’. Check them out and rock on \m/
‘UnEvolution’ is out for pre-order now. The work will
be released on 30 March, 2015. You can get the album for free if you buy a February tour ticket
One melee with the words, ideas and its paradoxes... albuns that are news, the reviews at "HeavyHardMetalmania.net", always with its watermark, Pedro Ribeiro, with love for beer... sorry, music from an early age, he studied piano and singing from 7 to 14 years, then, devoted himself to the study of the guitar for 5 years. "The wisdom is found in the extremes, all extreme Metal here!"
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| Tracklist: 01 - A Thousand Days Wasted 02 - Mr. Munchausen 03 - Nightboy 04 - Not Too Cool To Dance 05 - It's The Way 06 - The Crow That Follows You Home 07 - God is Complex 08 - Kramer 09 - Falling Up 10 - The Idiots Are Winning 11 - Succubus 12 - Time To Crucify |
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