Recent Reviews

March 2023

February 2023

January 2023

December 2022

[ More Music Reviews ]


Korrosiah: Creepy Feelings
Korrosiah Creepy Feelings album new music review

Korrosiah: Creepy Feelings

Progressive Thrash/Death Metal
4.0/5.0

Thundering Records/Manitou Music
www.myspace.com/korrosiahband
korrosiah.free.fr
By Craig Hartranft,  10.25.2010

Surprising, and surprisingly better than expected. That's a good summation of Korrosiah's debut disc Creepy Feelings. This French band has a strong thrash and death metal found, the latter thanks to the grisly and growling vocals, but their overall style is a hybrid of influences. You can hear traditional thrash and death metal, but also metalcore, and even some European power metal, all bound together by some melodic and progressive metal glue. Generally, I would note that such a diverse combination shows a lack of direction, but not in Korrosiah's case. They make it work in a surprisingly satisfying way.

Fundamentally, the melodic progressive motif betters what could be utter mediocrity. Cripes! Every body and their brother are combing hardcore or death styles with thrash these days. But Korrosiah tempers that decisive harshness and general hardcore mucking ab out with interesting shifting and conniving arrangements, a strong sense of melody, and cracking fret work. While some tunes, like strangely average Liquidator and Dreading, barely rise above modern death/thrash metal, other simply soar with intrigue. Zodiac and Greed push against conventional wisdom standing death metal on its head with invention. And the core songs Venom, G.A.D., and Casus Belli are well-developed and mischievous compositions that show Korrosiah' progressive and melodic sensibility.

Even with the death metal vocals, which seem odd in the whole context, the true champion here is the music: progressive, aggressive, melodic and creative. I thinking the songs might sound quite awesome, not with exchange of clean vocals for the dirty, but with no vocals at all. But that's merely speculation.

Korrosiah's Creepy Feelings is a sound and strong debut standing conventional thrash/death metal on its collective head with their aggressive use of melodic and progressive arrangements. Recommended.




CraigHartranft.net - New fiction, crime fiction by Craig Hartranft

In Short

Korrosiah's Creepy Feelings is a sound and strong debut standing conventional thrash/death metal on its collective head with their aggressive use of melodic and progressive arrangements.

Album of the Week
Read the Excalion: Once Upon A Time Album Review

Formed 23 years ago, Finland's Excalion has had a turbulent musical career. Before releasing a trio of albums between 2005 and 2010, they had personnel changes. Currently, only the drummer and keyboard ... [ Read More ]