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The most
important quality that Scandinavian metal bands possess is a strong sense of
melody and this is no exception when it comes to the Norwegian band Semper Fi.
The band was originally formed in 1994 in Kristiansund in the north-west of
the country under the name Terror. At that time they were just another garage
band playing covers of different punk bands. Today the band is called Semper
Fi and very little of the early punk influences can be picked out from their
music, except for the attitude perhaps. The band has instead moved into the
metal scene with a sound that covers the best influences from hardcore, thrash
metal and melodic death metal. The band actually sounds closest to the new
wave of Swedish death / thrash metal bands in the late 90's such as Soilwork,
Darkane, Construcdead and others. Their music is generally slower and more
epic with razor sharp riffs that take every melody to its limit. The vocals
are a little bit hard to define. Sometimes they are dark growling while at
other times more of hardcore screams just to turn into deep spoken words a
second later. The growling ones are most common though. This is no doubt a
band who takes themselves very seriously and they have even recorded a 30
minute long music video which has been shown on MTV's Headbangers Ball on
several occasions (those good old times are gone now...). "Strong Weakness"
is a very professional and highly impressive release from a band that should
appeal to fans of Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity and Pro-Pain and all other bands
inbetween, as long as you like melodic and heavy music and don't mind some
minor nu-metal tendencies.
| Tracklist |
1. Sense Of |
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Justice 2. Center Of Believes 3. Strike 4. Mouth To |
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Man 5. No Fear 6. In My Head 7. Crush 8. Abused |
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9. Strong Weakness |
: 49.01
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