Lucid Wake-Tomorrow's Fading

Self-produced
2009

I remember these guys when they were Pelvic Fury as I reviewed their full length "Non-Euclidian nightmare" back in the first half of 2008. They may have changed the band name, but much of the sound is similar. The major component of their soundis old style thrash, but they weave in shades of heavy progressive runs as well. Those two parts are similar to where this band was as Pelvic Fury. What has changed is that they have added more death metal elements with some coming in bursts pushed into the music and the vocals try to take that approach at times too. The first item that stood out for me about the three tracks her was the drum sound because it's right on the funny. Basic perhaps, but aggessive as needed with a bruising sound and a great deal of consistancy. Next up would be the guitar rhythms which are also consistant and tight with strong tones. The guitar leads are not quite as smooth. Part of it was the production as they seemed lost in the overall mix a few times. Also these guys were trying to do a lot of quick pace and style changes, but the leads didn't handle all of these changes so smoothly. The weakest part of this band is unfortunately the vocals. As above they try to go with the style changes. During the thrash parts the vocals are fine, but during more chaotic musical parts the vocals sound flat at best and shrill at worst. For the most part all three tracks had enough to convince me that this is a talented band that just needs to work a little more on discovering what they can and cannot handle. Still worth checking out.