Loads of you probably already know that, though. Oh well, Volumes return right where they left off with new single Vahle but with an important topic to get off to get off their chest.
Volumes are an LA metalcore-meets-djent outfit that with their 2011 debut VIA turned all of heads their way. This single picks up where VIA left off, a barrage of charged, heavy-but-melodic music that makes you want to headbang... 24/7.
Vahle touches on the tragic circumstances in which they lost a close friend of the band, James Vahle. It's the reason I want to focus on the lyrics first. The lyrics are not metaphoric or clever. They are the blunt, unrelenting truth. Duel frontmen Michael Barr and Gus Farias lay down the lyric multiple times during the song "and I should have pulled you out of that truck". Lyrics don't get more real than that. Musically it's the same beautiful cacophony of sounds: chugging seven-string guitars, soaring electronics and vocals that can pin you down such is the force. Drumming- wise too the effortless double-bass grooves never let the others get too carried away with speed. They even fancy a little complicated breakdown every now and then... I joke, when they drop, they are huge.
Mediaskare like to release pre-production singles (don't really know why) but anyone would be forgiven for thinking this was a mixed album track. If anyone has ever listened to VIA it means you'll excited to see what Volumes producer and their guitarist Diego Farias does to this track to further the track. If anything like VIA, expect a polished, slick and bass-y as hell mix!
Scheduled for release early 2014, Vahle in it's full produced glory will feature on the record. You'd be mad to miss it, seriously.
8/10
Seb Wainwright
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