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Every Hour Wounds...The Last One Kills |
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| Parallel Minds are a heavy metal band from France who released their debut full length album 'Headlong Disaster' in 2015. The E.P. 'Unplugged Disaster' and the single 'Spanish Disaster' followed later the same year. Enduring a couple of line-up changes, the band have released their second full length album 'Every Hour Wounds... The Last One Kills' in 2019. | ||||||
| Four years ago I boarded the Parallel Minds roller coaster for an awesome and exhilarating ride of pulsating heavy metal, heavily influenced by giants Iron Maiden and Metallica. The bands roller coaster is fired up once again, and this time the ride is rougher, tougher, and more aggressive. Strap yourselves in sports fans, the ride is about to begin... Intense and immediate, 'Every Hour Wounds... The Last One Kills' scorches into life with the fast and furious instrumental 'Every Hour Wounds', climactically building tension for 'The Last One Kills' to come screaming at you, at a very high velocity. Fiery and fierce, 'The Last One Kills' is fast paced and aggressive heavy metal with thrash nuances. A breath taking opening blast of metal explodes even further with the high speed 'Amerinds'. Highly energetic and full of bombast, Parallel Minds add a catchy sing a long style chorus that fans all around the world are gonna sing, screech or scream. | ||||||
| The fire is burning hot as Parallel Minds forge on with the heavy hitting 'On Your Own', displaying a more hard rocking groove metal style, the kinda groove that American metallers Pantera delivered in abundance. Parallel Minds explore every corner of the heavy metal genre, showing huge confidence in their own ability and a middle finger to those who try to pigeon hole bands to a specific style. Setting a blistering pace, 'I Am C' rockets into life and roars on at high velocity. An in your face, full of aggression romp, 'I Am C' retains the infectious nature that makes every song Parallel Minds write and perform so addictive. Without warning though, all pace, power and brutality dissipate, and is replaced with the mellow, ballad sounding 'Syria'. Featuring guest vocals from Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land) and Yossi Sassi (Yossi Sassi Band and ex Orphaned Land), 'Syria' is an eight minute epic stroll of melodic power balladry, hard rock and heavy fucking metal. This roller coaster ride has just hit new heights of grandeur. 'How' brings a mid tempo heavy groove/Southern rock swagger to the album. And dare I say a little bit of rap metal too, with a touch of death metal growls and metalcore howls...what versatility and what an infectious song. | ||||||
| Parallel Minds are delivering a melodic heavy metal come thrash metal come groove metal style, that entices you to listen deeply and get lost in the raucous ride of glorious heavy metal. The intriguingly titled 'The 52 Hz Whale' clocks in at over eight minutes in length and is as heavy as one thousand wrecking balls all hitting at the same time. Strutting and stomping proudly, 'The 52 Hz Whale' is a relentless stroll of heavy riffage, thunderous rhythms and a vocal performance resembling a camp fire story tell. Scorching pace returns to the album in ferocious fashion with the high speed 'Kolyma'. Very much rooted in the thrash metal genre, 'Kolyma' thunders along at a pace and feel not too dissimilar to thrash metal titans Testament and Annihilator. As with their first album, Parallel Minds include a cover song. This time around it is 'Tonight He Grins Again', by heavy power metallers Savatage, taken from their 1991 album 'Streets: A Rock Opera'. And what a fucking amazing cover it is. Parallel Minds have got this one spot on, keeping the pace to the original and generating the same atmosphere and tension too. Thumbs up Parallel Minds. The band close their sophomore offering with an edited version of 'Syria', reducing the songs length by two minutes. | ||||||
| Overall, a thunderous and very heavy ride of relentless heavy metal from a band not afraid to explore various genres of metal music. | ||||||
| Review by Iron Mathew Collins | ||||||
| Reviewed for Metal Gods TV | ||||||
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