V:28-VioLution
Vendlus
October 29, 2007

I was a bit scared after listening to the first track "Exequor," thinking that this band was going to sound like a score-less horror movie, but they more than made up for it with the overly hard hitting follow up, "Shut it Down." V:28 play very, very fast death metal, almost at the speed that I would expect from a black metal band, but they have an industrial sound, which comes out slightly through keys or synths here and there. They have a lot of great parts that just rock out and sound like they are a lot of fun to play. Even though they have long songs (four over five minutes and two over seven), they make good use of their time, for the most part, and are pretty good at preventing things from getting boring.

The odd thing that V:28 add to their mix is melodic vocals. This would normally sound like a band trying to jump on a bandwagon, but V:28 are able to do just the opposite. They don't overuse the melodic vocals, and there is more than enough heavy music where the melodic vocals serves as a nice change of pace.

I really enjoy what V:28 offer up on this nine song release. They are great musicians and do a lot of things very well. They are bridging the gap between death and black metal, only with melodic vocals thrown in there as well.

Written by: RF
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