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I was quite surprised when I first listened to Naildown's debut album some days ago. I had never heard of this band before. However, considering that they are still quite new and just signed their deal with Spinefarm Records earlier this year, and having released one CDS, this is nothing to worry about. Already while listening to "World Domination" for the first time I was thinking that this album really had something special to offer. The band was described to me to sound a little bit like Children Of Bodom, but before you think 'Aha, just another Finnish CoB-clone that's trying to get a part of the fame', listen more closely. Naildown, formerly known as Acid Universe, are one of these bands that tried to create some kind of music that's quite easy to categorize as melodic death metal on the one hand but still not entirely comparable to all well-known melo-death bands on the other hand. Maybe you imagine Gothenburg-sound with the typical Finnish touch. What's especially remarkable on this album are the passages in which Daniel Freyberg (v/g) uses clean vocals in contrast to the typical screams. It's nothing new to combine clean vocals with death metal vocals but in this case the transitions are smooth without disturbing the listener.
The album itself consists of 10 songs and it's hard to pick any special highlight - my favorite might be 'Reflecting My Descent'. We are offered 10 compositions, each one very melodic, technical and especially the keyboard- and guitarwork is excellent. Of course we have some catchy tunes here as well. In my opinion, though, it takes a while until you really learn to appeciate what's in this album. The more I listened to it, the more the songs grew on me and you can discover new details every time you listen to it. Anyway, to make it clear, these guys didn't invent a completely new style - they still do sound how melodic death should sound like, but I think the 'melodic' part overweighs the 'death' part here. It's, partly due to the clean vocal parts, a bit softer than what we know from the usual bands in this genre. There are a couple of very small influences from other genres in here as well, but you have to find out yourself. Still I wouldn't go too far to call this album one of the best debut albums I've heard this year. Give these guys some time to develop their style and let's see what happens. I'm already looking forward to hear more.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Reflecting My Descent |
| 2. Prolong Your Fate |
| 3. Hollow Syndicate |
| 4. Evil Deeds |
| 5. Next Infinity |
| 6. Eyes Wide Open |
| 7. Broken Down |
| 8. World Domination |
| 9. Fragile Side |
| 10. Shining Throne |
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