Their first release after inking a deal with the cultish label Road Runner Records, Daath are bursting with melody, blast beats, precision riffs, spine tingling solos, and vocals that shred the delicate little hairs inside your ears to stubs. Metal fans of the world rejoyce, Daath have arrived to pulverise, enslave and dominate our scene, and arn't we elated that our humble lives will never again be the same!
Forging ahead with an eclectic evolving sound, the six piece from the U.S.A's Atlanta, Georgia, have created one of the most intense but melody focused death metal releases I've had the pleasure of listening to for quite some time. Infused with industrial / synth sounds throughout the tracks, The Hinderers manages to elevate the band head and shoulders above the many of their contemoraries.
Three of their many stand out tracks include the all round super catchy Subterfuge with its angelic guitar melody splices & intermittent blast beats, the synth heavy mid paced Under a sobre sign with its piano / synth intro and finally the album is drawn to a close with the masterful doom inspired slow grind of Blessed through misery.
Unfortunately the Hinderers is not entirely without its flaws. Despite the powerful opening of Subterfuge, the band quickly follows this with two uninspired generic "metal by numbers" tracks. With them aside, most of the remainder of the album thankfully manages to propel the release ever faster onto metal legendary status. Occassionally too, Daath skims very close to the tried and tested sounds of their forbears sceaming Opeth, In Flames, even U.S (relative) new commers Devil Driver, but, there is still enough music diversity to bring a big juicy stamp of their own originality to the scene.
Production wise The Hinderers is impecable with a crystal clear near perfect balance of the instrumentation and vocals, nothing less than we have come to expect from Road Runner Records.
In conclusion The Hinderers is a very exciting release from Daath which should firmly place the band on the world metal map. If you haven't picked up a copy you are absolutely missing out on one of the most refreshing, melodic listenable heavy metal albums of 2007. Never the less, if the metal gods are truly listening, this is an album which will be around for some time yet casting its shaddow :) across our lands for all to bathe in its distorted aural pleasures!
The Clip for "Daath - Subterfuge"
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