Blind To Faith
Under The Heptagram EP
a389 Records
Released : October 29, 2013
If a friend of mine would have handed me this 12″ EP from Belgium’s Blind To Faith, and told me it was released during the early ’90s on Earache Records, I would have believed it. Hook, line and sinker. The cover art screams Eyehategod. While musically more akin to early Entombed or Dismember with a more Hardcore edge to the vocals. Vicious but filled with that Floridian old school groove. I love the rage on this record.
Clocking in at roughly ten minutes, and kicking off with an instrumental track that could have done without the initial minute it takes for the band to kick in. Once they do, though, they slowly build up there tempo into a segment that would have made a quality introduction to a Black Metal record. Before falling into a solid old school Death metal riff that plays out the duration of the instrumental track.
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The title track follows that up with a rapid fire two minutes of aggression. Picture hardcore played by a group of guys that are hung up on Entombed and Dismember records. The final track is more of the same, albeit with a slower breakdown section with almost spoken word vocals spat across it, before ending with a few echoed screams and a great riff that fades out.
There was a time not too long ago, where metal kids didn’t mesh with punk kids. And hardcore kids wanted to do with either. Yet now we are seeing more and more artists mixing in elements from all these different extreme music genres. And its fantastic. Seriously, why wouldn’t this work out?
This is something you should consider adding to your collection.
For Fans Of : Entombed, Dismember, Ringworm
Track listing :
01. The Gateway
02. Under The Heptagram
03. Burial For Mankind
