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fromjoy - fromjoy
The Sophomore Long Play from Houston Metalcore Band, fromjoy is a Herculean Blend of Breakneck Metal and Y2K Drum and Bass.
Accelerated tempos push violent drum patterns, designing barrages of tight cymbals and ferocious kicks. Sheering guitar winds and whirls, leaving a metallic taste in animalistic buildouts. Clean vocals and raucous screams quaver under instrumental Armageddon, ushering in vicious, but subtle melodies. Annihilatory movements are only rescued by glassy Drum and Bass sections, slowing the pulse for warm basslines and vapor aesthetics to take over.
While the Texas band conforms to saturated Metalcore concepts in a couple of the early tracks, the solitary merging of erratic Metal rhythms and atmospheric Breakbeat builds an uncanny soundscape. Accompanied by the spaced-out imagery of Greek mythology and the apocalyptic nostalgia of Y2K environments, fromjoy shepherds a liminal space between ancient drama and modern melancholia.
The lyrical content furthers such themes, as the "machine," is credited for society's downfalls and the vocalist's unfaithfulness to higher powers. Present day anecdotes of police violence and technologically sourced depression manifest a contemporary context for the Greek tale of Prometheus, the creator of humans. It is Prometheus's gift to humans; fire and technology that encourage curiosity, leading to the opening of Pandora's Box and the release of all human insecurity and evil unto the world.
For all of that, the self-titled project is still only a transient 26 minutes, meaning much interpretation and intriguing concepts are left outside of the band's timeframe. Certain genre tropes are also present, diminishing the returns of otherwise emotive sentiments.
Whilst such brevity and platitude do exist, fromjoy lives on as distinguished Metalcore album. Its eldritch amalgamations of Mathcore Metal, Vaporwave Beat, ancient past, and catastrophic modernity enlighten an emphatic destruction of song and mind.
Best Tracks: accela -- Eros/of the shapes of hearts and humans -- seraph -- fromjoy -- Helios -- Icarus
7/10
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