The Sorrow – Origin Of The Storm (2009)

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I have to say that I was quite impressed with The Sorrow’s performance in Tuska 2008, so I was curious about listening to this album. And I was completely disappointed, while you can clearly see their old Gothenburg influenced Melodic Death metal style, they completely kill it with the terrible Metalcore/emo style vocals. The album kicks of powerfully and I was thinking, this will be a great release, but noooooo the vocals switched to the annoying clean vocals, and the typical emo’ish choirs.

I was about the stop listening to this album, but I remembered that I have to communicate my finding with other metal heads, so they decide for themselves if they want to take the plunge this way. I must say that the music is excellent since they still play a killer melodic death, but they ruin every single good riff with terrible vocal changes.

There are many great songs and parts of this album, but they are not enough for me to be able to stand the blasphemy that is the type of vocals they used. Like I said before I openly admit that as a band they are pretty good, all their songs are well composed.

The guitars and drumming is excellent in this album, showing more maturity than in their 2007 debut album. You can clearly make an excellent Melodic Death metal album if you cut out some tracks and re-mix the album.

But if you are a fan of this type of music, I’m pretty sure you will be completely pleased with this release, since it features the best of both worlds: great melodic music and some ‘decent’ metalcore vocals.

Band: The Sorrow Album: Origin Of The Storm
Label: Drakkar Records Year: 2009
Official Site myspace
Genre: Metalcore

Country: Austria

Rating: 85/100 (based solely on the music)

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