A New Album From Demon Tongue
A brutal new release from Demon Tongue delivers a thrashing and deepening soundscape that blends classic metal with elements of grindcore, hardcore, death metal, and more all rolled up into one hard-hitting and vast undertones album release and everything about it delivers surprises and a connective aspect that makes the whole thing sound almost like a concept record.
The Call of the Void album certainly does have more than a few surprises around its corners and there is an absolutely cinematic backbone that it leans on from time to time as tracks build into melodic metal soundscapes that you didn't see coming.
One of the things I loved most about this record was its pure energy because a lot of the tracks felt like they were live on the floor as if each player was feeding off of each other during the recordings themselves.
The guitar tones were stellar across the board and gave the record the drive that it needed while vocals screeched with a grueling undertone as the drumming thrashed out with high energy when it needed to and vastness to go right along with the rest of the music at the appropriate times as well.
There was certainly a lot that went into this record and it indeed does again, feel like a concept album as the songs interconnect with each other, and even if that's not correct, this is the type of album that you listen to as a whole from beginning to end because that's the way it was meant to be soaked in.
Everyone put their all into this album without question but the guitar work is insane as it doesn't just deliver memorable riffs and vast, open feels, it also gives crazy lead guitar solos that are tight, melodic, and spot on.
This is certainly a lot to take in but if you love any kind of thrashing, deepening, death, or even melodic metal, this album is for you because it encompasses all these different genres in one record and in doing so it makes a story and it creates more of an experience than just an album.
I love stuff like this because it's so much bigger than you think it's going to be and there's so much more involved than you initially thought in the first place.
The performances from everyone on this record are stellar and I think that people who don't listen to a lot of metal also don't understand the kind of musical talent it takes to be able to put together a record like this one.
This whole record hits like a sucker punch to the gut and when that blitzkrieg of metal is over you have this spanning and cinematic sort of spaces between them that are the areas where they build as if it's the calm before the storm which is exactly what it is a lot of the time.
This is the thing that makes the record a little bit different and how it stands out a little bit more because there was a whole thought process that went behind not just how the songs were arranged and composed, but how the songs were ordered on the record and how the intensity levels swell and sway throughout the album as well.
There's a lot about this record that was sort of alive and breathing in its own way.
From the first track down to the last you have something that hits uniquely with each song but also connects with the rest of the album perfectly.
This was a killer album performed and written by a band that knows exactly what they're doing and they have a damn good time doing it.
Listening to this record takes you to a different world so I would suggest you let that escape take you over and put some headphones on when you listen to this record.
