Fuck Your Shadow From Behind - Freigeist
Fuck Your Shadow From Behind is a young deathcore band that have just come to fruition under their new home, Basterdized Recordings. Their first album, Freigeist, is a blend of extreme deathcore and metalcore, offering grunted vocals, chunky riffs, and plenty of nonstop drumming. Many of the tracks are the standard cookie cutter deathcore style songs such as "Verse Der Freiheit" and "Die Abkehr" which offer mediocre riffs and drumming that just sound like senseless noise while switching between screaming and growled vocals. But, then there's also some tracks that offer more than just mediocrity. Fuck Your Shadow From Behind tend to inject a little jazz fusion into their music every once in a while such as on "Das Erlöschen Der Qual (pt. I)" where halfway through the song the drums actually change their tempo up a bit instead of blaring on nonstop and the guitars perform a short progressive jazz-like section. "Tristesse" offers an eerie electronic opening before launching into the deathcore, but breaks down again to offer some very slow melodic notes while the vocals grunt on with a slightly mechanical edge. The overbearing speed is lost and replaced with a slightly more easy going tempo. For once, the band doesn't try to mathcore and make so many tempo changes in a second fans lose track of them and just sounds like melodic deathcore.
Overall the album is mostly just a regular deathcore album meant for fans in the vein of Carnifex, Unearth, and maybe even Whitechapel, but the band has plenty of potential to become much more. Since they were willing to put their toes in the water with the moments of progressive and jazz metal that Freigeist has to offer, perhaps on future work they will just dive headlong in. If listeners are a fan of extreme noise and aggressive vocal assaults that don't always seem like it takes much to pull off, then this album will sit fine with them. If they want something a little more well constructed and evolved, best wait till album number 2.
Overall the album is mostly just a regular deathcore album meant for fans in the vein of Carnifex, Unearth, and maybe even Whitechapel, but the band has plenty of potential to become much more. Since they were willing to put their toes in the water with the moments of progressive and jazz metal that Freigeist has to offer, perhaps on future work they will just dive headlong in. If listeners are a fan of extreme noise and aggressive vocal assaults that don't always seem like it takes much to pull off, then this album will sit fine with them. If they want something a little more well constructed and evolved, best wait till album number 2.
- Das Erlöschen Der Qual (pt. I)
- Der Wahrheit Zweites Gesicht
- Wandel Und Replik
- Es War Die Zeit
- Verse Der Freiheit
- Zwielicht
- Die Abkehr
- Tristesse
- Ein Tagwerk
- Auf Reise
Basterdized Records
Reviewer: Colin McNamara
Jun 5, 2010
Jun 5, 2010
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