By Martin Elliott
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Hungarian extreme metallers have released a video for their song “Emptiness”, taken from their forthcoming album “Where Death Hunts”. The album releases on April 18th via Wormholedeath.
Kicking proceedings off with an intense, pulverising barrage, the song’s opening verse immediately brings attention to the band’s mastery of genre staples. Crushing guitars and relentless drums lay a savage foundation for frontman Imre Török’s monstrous growl . While the band have referred to themselves as death-influenced thrash metal, the balance here shifts more towards the death side of the spectrum, somewhat reminiscent of Vader with the blackened elements toned down.
A minute into the track, a cascading series of drum fills from Gergely Győri introduces the chorus. As the tempo slows down, the drama inherent in the song is increased. The band’s mastery of dynamic writing is on full display here. As Török intones the lyric “Back to loneliness, I would like to show it to you...”, an undeniably hummable guitar line forms a melodic accompaniment to the rhythmic growl.
This juxtaposition of death metal heaviness with the relatively brighter tones of thrash metal is further emphasised as the song’s most brutal moment, a verse where they go all in on the death metal side of the sound, is immediately counterbalanced with the song’s melodic high water mark in the form of a brief, glimmering solo courtesy of guitarist András Székely. The song is closed out with a return to those crushing riffs of the song’s opening before a final variation of the chorus ends the song on the lines “Fulfilling that emptiness, To find myself in you”, a succinct denouement of the track’s lyrical theme.
At this point in time, the elements which make up the subgenres of extreme metal are well established. The mark of distinction for any band within the broader scene is to find their own way of combining these elements into an individual style, and in “Emptiness” Atrox Trauma certainly accomplish this. This ability to combine the facets of their style into a dynamic and dramatic composition bodes well for the band’s sophomore album “Where Death Hunts”. If their mastery of death and thrash metal expands to the full length, they’ll have a powerful beast on their hands.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri – Drums
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