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LANDSCAPES – modern earth

Review

LANDSCAPES

modern earth

Genre
CD
Label
Pure Noise Records
Datum
22.05.2016
Autor
Karsten Conform
6 /10
Damn, the melodic hardcore hits me hard after the intro with the second song "Observer" blasting out of the speakers, I’m immediately pumped! The third and fourth songs "Death After Life" and "Embrace" are just pure melodic kick-ass hardcore and excite me! The songs on the second album by the English band are not even that fast-paced, thanks to drummer Jordan "Jordi" Urch (for hardcore standards), while the fat guitar sound from Martin Hutton and Kai Sheldon and the screaming from Shaun Milton make the songs by LANDSCAPES simply awesome. Unfortunately, the 5 guys, with Tom Diamond Poulton on bass missing, shift directly from the fifth song "Remorser" back from sixth to second gear. Shifting down 1-2 gears is okay, always going full throttle just destroys the engine, but shifting down 4 gears right away :-(
Good thing it goes back up 2 gears with "Neighbourhood", only to shift back down to second gear with "Escapist". Melodically, these songs are in second gear, but also damn sluggish. :-(
After a midro (is that the term?), it continues with the ninth song "Radiance", which kicks you right in the balls, yes, that’s how it should be! Said and done with the second to last song "Transient", which again pushes full throttle in sixth gear.
But there’s also first gear, which starts the eleventh and thus last song "Heaven Ascended". Over its 3½ minutes, the song does build up to fourth gear, but in the integrated outro, the song then goes into neutral. Specifically, "Modern Earth" has 28 minutes of music plus another 4 minutes. And of those 28 minutes, 2/3 are really awesome, even though unfortunately I don’t have any lyrics or a booklet (which, as usual, results in point deductions). The other third, well....
Therefore, unfortunately, there are only 6 points, it could have been more! :-(

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