With its cloudy minimalist cover, the album Limbo by progressive thrash metal group The Blackened Beneath has been released. Although this has thrash elements to it and has some real thrash pace to it at times, the album tends to have a bit more patience and timing rather than straight all-out thrash.
The opening track Through The Gates of Hell has a fantastic mid-tempo rhythm with some real groove and lets you know this band and album has some dark shadows lurking around it.
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Not a fast song but a short one. Almost an intro or a lead-in to the main feature.
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The rest of the four-track EP has some big songs with the next one Dying For Life being the fastest and a definite thrash buzz saw. Very catchy with a big chorus, and blazing guitars, very satisfying for any metalhead. Dark Ambitions is the progressive storyteller with an awesome classic prog metal-sounding intro, leading into Will’s spoken word storyteller-style vocals. This song is a really great sounding but slower building, almost epic! Some really nice clean singing by Will on here, with some equally good slightly high screaming, growls to add texture. This song although not my favorite shows depth and good songwriting ability, and a willingness to change it up.
My favorite song is The Rise And Fall Of Man. Excellent song, booming drums to start with, dancing intertwining music riffing guitars and classic thrash vocals make this a landmark. A very well-produced song with a polished sound including a broken down slower section in the middle with an amazing guitar solo that may just be the best bit on the whole disc.
Kostya is the man providing the killer sticks and pedals on drums really the highlight, musically for me, giving a real thump and aggressive sound with many different varying tempos and styles. Bryn has the rhythm guitar driving the music along while Andy completes the whole rhythm section on bass. Jeremy on lead guitar unleashes some blazing solos on here and this helps lift everything nicely. Will who I have highlighted before, gives a wide-ranging performance from all areas of vocal styles and is probably the top performer on this EP.
I did think though overall this EP needed a couple more attention-grabbing moments to really make it shine and make me want to play it more and more. But Limbo is a good EP and certainly is an enjoyable listen with everyone performing nicely in a well-produced package. I do recommend this album as a well made good heavy metal album.
The Blackened Beneath: N/A
Release Year: 2013
Label: self-released
Category: Album
Country: Australia
Reviewed by Chris Rankin
