In conclusion, there certainly are a lot of ideas crammed into this EP. The song progressively dies down in a nice and tasteful way, demonstrating a nice range of compositional devices. There are also some interesting ethnic style lady vocals that add a certain creepiness to the cleaner outro section. The vocalist is arguably a better shouter than singer. Then in an instant, the genre switches to pure, non-symphonic metalcore with crazed speed picked riffs, mental drumming and angry shouts. The speech goes on a bit long, so maybe it would have been more entertaining if he joked around, maybe by pondering where you take a cake to see its friends, for example. 😛įinal track ‘Kratzer’ starts with the familiar styled clean guitars, this time with a pessimistic and serious George Carlin quote on top of it.
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I guess others would say it’s full of ideas. It’s a bit of a rollercoaster, and as it only lasts a little over 4 minutes, some would say it’s underdeveloped.
Soon enough, those exciting parts end with a bang, and the doomy ideas return to finish the piece. In the second half, the distorted (and typical) guitars are back, joined with those excellent orchestral parts and soon after, death metal style blast beats/drum soloing. Even though the electric guitars are clean again, the harmonies they play are doomy and even slightly disturbing. The first half of track ‘Ad Infinitum – Orchestra Version’ is far darker than the preceding song. Sure the distorted guitars are chuggy/tremolo picked and that’s a very clear cliche, but the orchestrations are very detailed and professional. Again, that’s a shame as the instrumental backing there and this time female vocals, are hard to fault. The harsh vocal style works much better in the following symphonic metal piece ‘313 – Orchestra Version’, but he still sounds like a regular guy off the street a lot of the time. He certainly hits the right notes, some of them are even pleasing, (many are pretty standard) but he sounds amateurish. Not only that, his voice isn’t particularly nice to listen to. Intro track ‘Voices – Acoustic Version’ has sweet and crystal clear clean guitar arpeggios with some soothing ethnic wind playing on top of it from time to time, but the rough vocals are somewhat ill-fitting.
They formed in 2018 and continue to show their determination by showcasing fresh sounds and releasing music videos. It follows a 2019 EP called ‘So Repeat This Line’ and a 2020 single named ‘Kratzer’. They self-released their latest mini album ‘Ad Infinitum’ on December 29th, 2021. Raze are a five piece metalcore band with symphonic metal influences and lighter sections, from Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
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