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║ ARTiST......: Third Wave ║
║ ALBUM.......: Metamorphosis ║
║ TYPE........: Album ║
║ LABEL.......: Independent ║
║ GENRE.......: Metal ║
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║ COUNTRY.....: Germany SOURCE.....: WEB ║
║ RiP.DATE....: 05-26-2019 ENCODER....: LAME3.99 ║
║ RETAiL.DATE.: 05-24-2019 QUALiTY....: 320kbps/44.1kHz ║
║ CATALOG.....: n/a MODE.......: Joint Stereo ║
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║ http://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bxuddih7wtrb42zhsvh5qqv7omy ║
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║ THIRD WAVE are an odd dynamic to comprehend in modern metal. They ║
║ have all the naive sensibilities that you would hope to find in an ║
║ alternative band looking to make waves. Yet its within this crystal ║
║ ball of ambition where the band often struggle to craft a musical ║
║ style capable of allowing them to leave a mark. The bands humble ║
║ beginnings as a group of friends confined within a basement in 2015 ║
║ is a heartwarming one. Organic tales of how a band fought their way ║
║ through obscurity to make it to the studio is the kind of feel good ║
║ factor that goes hand in hand with metal. And there's real moments ║
║ in Metamorphosis where the bands infancy is part of their charm, but ║
║ the record never manages to sustain its momentum long enough to be ║
║ considered a solid effort throughout. ║
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║ Algorithm has an opening 30 seconds that juxtaposes itself in odd ║
║ fashion, with riffs that you could see being a backdrop to a TWO ║
║ DOOR CINEMA CLUB track, before exploding into a pace ridden tempo ║
║ akin the likes of AS I LAY DYING. This all precedes the power metal ║
║ style vocals that push their head through the canvas around the ║
║ halfway mark. The track succinctly manages to summarise ║
║ Metamorphosis in the space of 5 minutes and 57 seconds: some great ║
║ ideas and technical prowess that eventually become too lost in a ║
║ sonic whirlwind to remain prominent. ║
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║ Thankfully the one-two punch of Ruin and Catharsis are more ║
║ simplistic, effective affairs. With the former having a slithering ║
║ rock rhythm you canÆt help but be enticed by - while the latter ║
║ blasts out of the gates with SLAYER like ferocity. It's in these ║
║ moments where THIRD WAVE could have capitalised and potentially made ║
║ something special - but Metamorphosis soon becomes a victim of its ║
║ own ambitious tendencies. ║
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║ Coming in at 55 minutes, Metamorphosis feels like a slog of a listen ║
║ at times, which, when you consider how many musical left turns it ║
║ takes, is a worry. Even on its attempts to add melodic, 80's metal ║
║ esque slants on Access Denied and Fill In The Blank the bands ║
║ momentum has already been halted. For the most part this is down to ║
║ THIRD WAVE's insistence on swapping out vocal leads between Adrian ║
║ Meuser and guitarist Sebastian Hohmann on almost every opportunity ║
║ they get. You can't help but feel like the German's would have ║
║ sounded wholeheartedly more cohesive if the vocal mantle was left ║
║ entirely to Meuser whose rapid nature is often the fuel to the bands ║
║ fire. ║
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║ With Metamorphosis, THIRD WAVE seem like a band that have missed an ║
║ opportunity. There's the nucleus here of a good band, and if you're ║
║ simply looking for a riff fest then you will find a comfortable home ║
║ here - musicianship is never something the quintet struggle with. ║
║ While this is commendable in its own right, it's never enough to ║
║ solidify a true success of an album, as too regularly the band let ║
║ themselves down in their naivety of trying to be the most expansive ║
║ song writers in the room. ║
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║ 01 Algorithm 5:57 ║
║ 02 Inheritance 5:04 ║
║ 03 Ruin 4:01 ║
║ 04 Catharsis 4:30 ║
║ 05 Shifter 4:20 ║
║ 06 Fill In The Blank 7:22 ║
║ 07 Slumber 5:45 ║
║ 08 Awakening 4:51 ║
║ 09 Eclipse 3:59 ║
║ 10 Access Denied 3:07 ║
║ 11 Metamorphosis 6:14 ║
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║ TOTAL SiZE.: 11 Files/135.0MB/55:10 min ║
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