Cruz Del Sur
2009
This is the sophomore effort from Pittsburgh's Crown the lost. According to their Myspace page they have spent around a year writing this album. They label themselves as thrash and I am sure many reviewers will give them label as well. However there is definitely and air of progressive metal down below the surface of their songs. Oh, it's sped up certainly, but hear can't help noticing some parts that remind me of early Crimson Glory. There are also some shades of the type of swirling riffs that had me thinking of early King Diamond and Solitude Aeturnus. They begin almost every song with a strong burst and oftentimes the first 10-15 seconds are the most powerful part of each song. Inevitably they travel down some more complicated avenues though. You do have to focus some to keep up with all that is going on. I appreciate the speed and the amount of riffs, but I was left feeling hollow at times. The reason for that is that they don't always incorporate the level of heaviness that I think their material could use. It's as if the ideas were started, but there just is not enough meat on the material to really sustain it. I think the apparent lack of that edge is the difference between being good and just being decent. This album falls in that second category.
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