Australian proggies Karnivool are to mark the tenth anniversary of their platinum selling second album, ‘Sound Awake’, with a special live stream event next month.
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A lot has happened since Skarlett Riot regenerated (sic) themselves and put the industrial town of Scunthorpe – perhaps better known for bringing us sporting legends such as Kevin Keegan and Sir Ian Botham – very firmly on the musical map, with their declarative and highly impressive second album. With the band’s trajectory seemingly very much in the upward curve, another form of growth stopped them (like so many others) dead in their tracks, as the Covid pandemic sent the world to hell in a brakeless handcart… But, like so many others, the quartet didn’t let the small matter of a global pan(dem)ic get in their way, but instead put their grist to the mill and set about recording this, their third album…
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To Josh C, the term “groove metal from the Midlands” conjures awful images of a seven-band local show in a pub basement somewhere, where you get asked to stop moshing because you’ve bumped into someone trying to use the pool table. However, for those with concerns similar to his, he can assure you this is not the time to judge a book by its cover. Rather than a lazy local band strumming out the greatest hits of ‘Wrestlemania’, what you have here is a sophisticated metalcore record in the vein Employed To Serve or Harm’s Way.
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‘A Slow Ride Towards Death’ is a title which more than aptly summarizes both its content and feel, and the circumstances in which it was recorded. It is an album recorded at the most traumatic time in any band’s career, a time when they were questioning the reason for their own existence, their very belief in the music they played, and which provided the glue that kept them together. As a result, it is the soundtrack to the story of a band on the verge of collapse and implosion – a story which concluded when, almost as soon as the recording process was completed, one of the band members actually did quit.
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With the continuing inablilty of many US and other overseas bands to fulfil previously scheduled summer dates this year, it has been announced that the 2000trees festival, which had been due to take place over the first weekend in July, has been cancelled for the second successive year.
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