New Single Releases From ICER ENDER Arrive
A new single release from Icer Ender just dropped, and this track delivers a cross of melodic and heavy, blackened metal with inventive and slightly progressive riffs and guitar work that all come together to create this edgy and dark atmosphere with grueling vocals and powerful approaches.
"Revisit The Ground" starts off giving you some of its vast undertone, and that tonality does stick, lurking beneath the surface of the track the entire time, giving it a slightly haunting and cinematic soundscape, which is something I really liked because it pulled me into the song and showcased its depth and layers very well.
You can hear a slew of influences in metal that this is portraying. It actually blends several metal subgenres to create something pretty amazing and breeds a bit of its own atmosphere.
This track does feel very big. It's got a great sonic drive but isn't super over the top. It's got its edginess, a little bit of thrashing, some great Rifts, and a unique guitar tone that comes through heavy but still clean enough to hear every single note that's being played perfectly.
Throughout this track, you get a lot of that spacious underbelly and a bit of Gothic aesthetic.
The vocals are pretty robust. They carry the song super well and aren't over the top in terms of the volume levels.
I don't always get into the mix of a song, but here it's really important because the vocals are blended into the mix extremely well. Usually, vocals with metal can be a little over the top in terms of loudness, but here, they blend in with those guitars so that you can hear everything that's going on perfectly.
I love this aspect because it lets you get into the song More. This is like a tundra metal opus of sorts. It's almost 4 minutes long, but it feels a bit bigger for some reason. There are a lot of riffs and changes happening, which gives you that sense of progressive influence as well.
This was definitely a banger of a track and it was something that created its own aesthetic and atmosphere so that you get pulled into it, and once you're there, you don't want to leave.
This single follows another release called 'Witness My Steel", which also hits very hard with really ferocious riffs and vocal approaches that feel a little bit more brutal at times.
This track thrashes out a little harder, comes through a little faster at times, but still carries that melodic metal undertone that "Revisit The Ground" does.
Listening to these two songs, you get the sense of a story told about a warrior.
A warrior in a different time, and this gives the songs this almost dark, fantastical kind of aesthetic.
Both of these songs are well worth listening to, especially if you love good metal music.
Again, if you listen to both of these, you get a better grasp on the storyline between the two, and you also get more of that blend of metal approaches it delivers.
It takes this sort of blackened death metal, melodic, progressive, thrash, and purebred heaviness and puts them all together to build something that definitely has intensity to it and comes through closed-fisted, and again, vast in its undertone and storyline.
One of the things that I love about both of these tracks is their energy levels.
The energy in these songs is perfectly balanced. They are powerful but not over the top. They hit super hard but also don't stray from melodic and intricate riffs, the tightness of the performance, and the love of the craft.
You can instantly tell there is a real love for the craft of metal songwriting when it comes to this project.
I would listen to both of these loud or with headphones on so you could really take in the lyrics and the different sections and approaches that are coming through.
These tracks are massive and hit like a sucker punch to the gut, in a good way.
Layered and visualized, orchestrated, and perfectly performed metal opuses that showcase what Icer Ender is all about, to both of these singles as soon as you can so you can see exactly what I mean.
