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The Fall Of House Abbarath E.P.

    
       
       
       
     
             
DRAGONCORPSE are an internationally based thrash metal band formed in 2021, releasing two E.P.'s to date - 'The Drakketh Saga' (2023) and 'The Fall Of House Abbarath' (2024).    
             
Now let's get this outta the way right from the start, DRAGONCORPSE are not just a thrash metal band, the five-piece from across Canada, USA and Australia are a unique blend of thrash and death metal fused with metalcore, deathcore and power metal featuring clean, harsh and operatic vocals alongside guttural howls and scowls! And maybe just a little traditional heavy metal too, the bands new E.P. six songs and twenty three minutes of so much variation, DRAGONCORPSE make Heinz look like amateurs with only fifty seven varieties on offer! I tell ya readers, if you're looking for a Sunday morning easy listen - you're looking in the wrong fucking place...    
             
...the E.P. coming to life with 'An Introduction To (Heroism)', a suspense fuelled, tension filled tête-à-tête that builds into a rabble rousing crescendo of victory celebrations, and the start of the quest - or story, of the E.P. DRAGONCORPSE stepping on the accelerator to roar loud, fast and furiously with the frenetic 'Welcome Home', every style of metal the band have in their arsenal pouring outta the E.P. just like lava pours out of an erupting volcano! The band are fierce here, the searing vocals - both clean and harsh - seamlessly interwoven with 'Welcome Home's extra coarse abrasiveness! And where a band such as Celestial Wizard only mix together two genres of metal (namely power and death), DRAGONCORPSE mix more, much more - five to be exact! And still counting!    
             
An immensely eclectic opening salvo, the band remain firmly in exploratory mode for 'I Live... Again', DRAGONCORPSE blending the E.P.'s earlier suspense fuelled atmosphere with the bands unique multi metal genre delivery! Aggressive doesn't quite cut it when it comes to describing the international outfit's in your face attitude - even hyper-aggressive sounds tame, so how about a cocktail of brutality, violence, and barbarity with a side order of cruelty! Yep - that'll do! Now hang on a goddamn minute, is that an element of pop music as 'A Quest For Truth' begins? Sure fucking is, DRAGONCORPSE widening their arsenal to new widths - methinks the band will need a new armoury soon to store their ever increasing weaponry in!    
             
Weaponry that's explosive, devastating and deadly, the E.P. strolling into ballad territory with 'Whisper On The Wind' - yes readers, that's right, ballad territory! Now that may seem a million miles away from the bands root sound and you'd be right, but if there's one thing I've learned about DRAGONCORPSE after listening to them for only a few minutes is - they don't care about musical direction or pigeon-holing! They're gonna go their own way, do their own thing and re-shape genre boundaries as they see fit - and right now they're bouncing around in balladry! Featuring the vocal talent of German based singer, songwriter, filmmaker and voice over artist Lauren Coleman, 'Whisper On The Wind' is the ultimate chalk and cheese, night and day, oil and water, love and hate living proof of polar opposites with regards to the bands sound! So feel free to raise your lighters high in the air as you would do for any other ballad, just be wary the band are gonna grab 'em to set the touch paper alight for the E.P.'s finale 'Fear And Hunger' - the level of ferocity rising right through the fucking roof as DRAGONCORPSE return their all conquering unique blend of boundary breaking metal to the fore!    
             
Overall, 'The Fall Of House Abbarath' E.P. is a ferocity driven mesmerising mix of thrash, death and power metal fused with metalcore and deathcore.    
             
             
Review by Iron Mathew Collins    
             
Reviewed for Metal Gods TV    
             
             
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