Sonick Plague-Sonick Plague
- By Patrick Wooten
- Jul 9, 2015
- 5 min read
The album cover looks to be of multiple influences and messages but violent to say the least.
Track 1. Street Wars- Your ears are treated to a warm clean sound, which strums about. Subtle distorted echoes from a guitar become apparent, almost as if it's growing to something. The music opens up settling into a creative yet heavy refined groove. The long drawn out chords drag a bit, the music practically explodes into mayhem bursting forth thrash. Quite tight yet eclectic and tasty. Vocals are decent, passionate, though at times you can't ear every word, though hey it's thrash. There's some interesting time changes as well, nothing stays in one place too long, they keep things interesting and cool, great opening track.
Track 2. My Gun- A sick fucking bass open's things if just in a subtle way, the song slings into a massive heavy groove. Things get out of hand but run right through a groove of controlled metal. Another hard hitting tasty track from this band. I really like the how the song flows between the guitar riffs and the vocal melodies, simple but interesting melodies, great chugging here! Very tight sound, a powerful and tasty thrash, drives hard, it's message that's relentless and crazed! Vocals are a simplistic rasp, though they are like none I've really heard before, the lead guitar shines mightily with it's solo. The music runs back into it's original hook where it stays for a while, until the song basically changes pace almost becoming a completely different song, throwing you for a loop but at the same time, really impressing the fuck out of you! Great stuff!
Track 3. AA- An interesting and powerful drum beat leads the charge here from the beginning! Slowly a heavy groove trickles in and establishes the mood of the song. Loving that grinding palm muted presence, it's like a kick to the fucking throat. They have a simple, yet fucked up awesome sound all rolled into one, definitely that classic thrash feel though, digging the hell out of this! Definitely reminds me of some personal old favorites. They continue with their masterful arrangements of aggressive and creatively tasty pieces. The hooks jump around in your mind without solace, the music slows down only enough to fool you, and when your fooled, that sick bass grabs you and throws you! Crazy vocals. The music continues on with it's fucked up groove, what more can you do that enjoy it? Classic thrash, purely that's what this is, and well done at that!
Track 4. I Don't Want to Relax- A cadence upon the drums leads the sound of marching feet upon the ground set in by what appears to be an army. The music takes on a creative metal approach of what seems to be a call to arms of sorts. It's like a military sort of them, though with a melodic touch of pride. The music open's up, to become something quite AWESOME. It even begins to swerve and groove about, until stopping, just long enough to die completely. One after another steady heavy beats with distortion re-emerge to do great justice to the track, keeping your interest with due force of crazy amounts of mind boggling wonder.Damn, loving those hard hitting drums! There's a fucking over load of METAL here, never a bad thing, a kick ass slow rendition of catchy METAL! Vocals finally enter after all that, but hey it's still quite good stuff. Explicit lyrical subject matter, though well enjoyed. This song grooves with its thoroughly tasty aggression.
Track 5. View of Death- The music begins with a slap onto the percussion, even though it sliders right into an onslaught or awesome grooving thrash I kind of wish it would have started with a melody, though this shit is quite good! Interesting lyrical subject matter, vocals have good clarity as do the harmonies, though they have an interesting feel about them. The vocals sound very familiar too, though I have never heard this band before. This groove continues until the music slows down and then explodes to only become more melodic, more fast paced than at any point in the song going thoroughly bat shit crazy. Loving the guitar solo! The melody is quite rich here. Another very technical, yet hard hitting and creative piece, these guys know what they are doing, and do it quite well!
Track 6. One Swift Kick- A sweet bass line starts it, and then things get quickly more interesting with the heavy groove. Vocals quickly enter the mix after the drum beat establishes a well confined tasty beat. Vocal enunciation with guitar vocals is quite good. Love how the bass sneaks into the mix creating pure havoc. The music slows down and cleans up thoroughly, becoming a very tight crunch, though things alternate back towards the fast crazy presence. Their transition back and forth from clean to heavy is not that bad, at least they do it tastefully. The rhyme scheme seems intelligent though you can not exactly hear every word thoroughly, though what you can hear does sound good.
Track 7. Misc Bullshit- Slow and heavy trudges of metal, sludge about, until a groove becomes established. More of the same with their sound here, interesting mind splattering riffs, heavy tight aggressive crunch. The moment you wish there was more melody some splinters in with the lead guitar, and a melodic solo, more would have been nice. The lyrical subject matter does not make much sense here though, some of it before in previous tracks has been spot in though here, not so much. Decent instrumentals though.
Track 8. NRG- And the track opens with a count off to something very funny awesome and lyrically explicit. It feel's like some sort of call to arms. Really liking the riffs here, they seem a bit more memorable then the one's that have been used before, lots of galloping on this album. Ton's of aggression between the lyrical subject matter and between the music itself it's shit storm of fury rolled into a cluster fuck of dynamite. The same groove pretty much pounds on with, a slick lead solo that chimes in, though the sound does change again towards the end, with the original hook sliding back into the mix, being guided of course by the all powerful and ever impressive drums. It's been a un review, some parts with the vocals bothered me a bit as far as clear enunciation, other parts were ok. I wish there would have been more lead guitar presence, the solo's were good, but some more melodic parts would have been great. The guitar riffs other than that were quite tasteful and aggressive, though some seemed a bit to similar to the next. Overall a great album, that will get you head banging without much disappointment!
Rating 8/10
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