1. Oceans
2. Vanquisher
3. Charisma
4. Ambitions
Genre: Metalcore
For Fans Of: My Ransomed Soul, For Today, As I Lay Dying.
Debut ep from the Saints To Sinners, this band has some power behind them to make some great heavy music, this ep should have been a bit longer than it is I think that’s my only problem with it. The production and overall sound of the ep is great though nothing to really complain about there, everything sounds good. Their vocalist has a neat style with his screams it’s somewhat generic but his voice sort of changes it to make it into fit the band’s sound more.
“Oceans”
First song on the ep, it shows their sound pretty well I’d
have to say, it gives you a good feel of their talents also, which is a really
good thing for a debut e to do, so you know what you’re going to be listening
to. The band does have some really good talent though, their instrument play is
nice and the overall sound is really good, everything has a flow that stays
together to make something good and worth listening to.
“Breakdown”
Cleans: The clean vocal has a somewhat small part in the
song. I could have gone for a longer part to be honest it just spices up the song
and adds some flavor to the song.
Screams: As I said the screamer has the sort of the generic
screaming style, but his voice makes it fit a little bit with the band’s sound,
this isn't a really bad thing, a lot of bands have this now a day, but his lows
are something I really enjoyed listening to.
Instruments: The song is kind of heavy in the sense of
metalcore, the instrument play is really nice when it comes to drumming for
this band, the guitar parts are good, don’t get me wrong they just don’t really
stick out as much.
“Vanquisher”
This song has a really good intro it, nice and heavy. Once
the vocals come in, is where it really picks up and gets a lot better to listen
to, if you’re a fan of heaviness in music, this would be the song I’d tell you
to listen to first, but it sucks because this is one of the shortest songs on
the ep, if it was longer I could probably say this is the best song on the ep,
well it is but if it was longer the factor of the best would fit a lot more for
this song.
Breakdown:
Cleans: The clean vocals have another small part near the
end of the song, even the clean vocals help the song with the heaviness factor,
which is just something you wouldn't hear usually, the cleans are well in the
high range also.
Screams: The screamers style changes a little bit, it fits
more with the style of the song, which is good, he kind of helps the song get
it’s heaviness, which is good to have heaviness in both main factors of the
song.
Instruments: This song has the best drumming on the whole
ep, it really helps the band out when it comes to heaviness and sticking out on
the whole ep.
“Charisma”
This is the shortest song on the whole ep, but one of the
best on the this ep as well, it’s 2 minutes long, it could have been better if
it was like 5 maybe, this song has a lot of heaviness and great instrument play on this song. The guitar is the main
thing that kind of stands out a little bit which is pretty good. The last song
had drumming that kind of stood out this song has guitar riffs that stick out.
If the band wrote more songs like this, they’d probably be a little bit better
than they are now.
Breakdown:
Cleans: The clean vocals have another very small part near
the end of the song, I kind of wish his part was a little longer maybe it would
have been if the song was longer, maybe not, but it does fit a little bit with
the song structure.
Screams: The screamer
tries to get his vocals to sound heavy to match the sound, it does work for the
most part, and he does have a nice flow with his vocals as well.
Instruments: The intro is kind of heavy with the drumming,
it’ll draw drummer’s attention to the song, the song is overall kind of heavy
mixed with some softness in it, and it’s not so bad though it sounds decent to
say the least. There is some neat guitar play on this song though, I’d have to
admit.
“Ambitions”
This song is anything, has the most clean vocals you’ll hear
on the whole ep, which isn't a bad thing really, they kind of saved the best
and the song that shows the most from them for last, which is a good concept
but it could have worked better when the songs the first song you’d hear but
this way works as well, at least I hope it worked for them.
Breakdown:
Cleans: You’ll hear a little bit more from the clean vocals
on this song than you’d hear on the other song which is a good thing because,
they ended the ep on a really good note, not a horrible or bad note.
Screams: The screams are at the intro which is the best
thing they kind of did for this song it takes it into a heavy factor of the
song. The screamers style isn't that bad to be quite honest, but it does sound
the same on every song, that could have been fixed a little bit, but you’ll
hear at some parts it’s a completely different style, not very often on this ep
but it’s there.
Instruments: The instrument play on this song is really
good, and they end the ep on a somewhat heavy, somewhat soft note which really
caught my eye. The guitar solo type thing at the end of the song really did the
ep some good in the end.
Rating: 8/10
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