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The Sweet Metal Band are a metal band from Spain forming in 1999 and releasing their debut album in 2001. Four more albums followed over the next ten years, with their fifth album, 'The Farm', released in 2016.    
             
Versatile, intriguing and various is the new album from The Sweet Metal Band, with every song displaying a different musical influence. 'Some Things Never Change' is a thunderous opening salvo, with some brutal riffing and a pulsating rhythm that moves along with urgency. An aggressive Pantera like attitude keeps the song in your face and 'Some Things Never Change' is a very heavy opening song. Picking up the intensity and adding a growly vocal delivery, 'Numbers' is a mash up of thrash and death metal. The vocals really are sinister sounding and a little menacing too, and you begin to question if it is the same singer...with yes, the answer to that question. The vocal range is very wide and as the album progresses you will hear a lot more.    
             
'Bleeding' brings a party rock vibe to the album and is heavy, hard rock with a bouncy rhythm that will foot tap rather than head bang. A very clean and clear vocal style for 'Bleeding' introduces a totally different atmosphere, and half way through there is a turn of pace and 'Bleeding' becomes a rampant rage of blistering guitars. A cracking song with so much differing influences. Abrasive and brutal, 'Addicted To Failure' is a very heavy rasp of heavy riffing with both growly, and clean vocals. The Sweet Metal Band brand themselves as metal, but with so much diversity in their music it is hard to categorise them in any sub genre of metal. All I can say is, listen with an open mind and welcome the opportunity to hear many different styles.    
             
Listen closely to 'The Beginning Of The End' and you will hear a nod to American thrash metal legends Metallica, with parts of the song, including the vocal delivery, sounding a lot like 'Load' and 'Reload' era Metallica. 'The Beginning Of The End' has no pace to it, but is also no where near doom metal pace either...mid tempo foot stomping is the order of the day here. Bringing the album to a close is the brutal riffing and death metal influenced 'One More Nightmare', although it does wander from death metal vocals to clean and clear vocals with seemingly no effort at all. As I said earlier, very hard to place The Sweet Metal Band in any kind of genre, with this album spreading itself across the heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal and hard rock genres.    
             
Overall, an eclectic collection of songs that will intrigue and entertain the listener, introducing them to a varying number of musical styles.    
             
             
Review by Iron Mathew Collins    
             
Reviewed for Zombie War Management    
             
             
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