I’m writing a review for an album I haven’t even fully heard yet, I’m that confident.
Miseration’s new album The Mirroring Shadow is the follow-up album to Your Demons – Their Angels, which was not a bad album, but wasn’t really an album that I could listen to over and over. It was closer to metal-core than I would’ve liked – it definitely doesn’t sound as epic and varied as Shadow does. Basically take epic Black Metal themes, combined with Bloodbath-esque riffs and Christian Älvestam’s brutal vocals and you have Miseration’s latest album.
Älvestam is just one of those guys that can do it all vocally – he can sing clean or growl like a beast. Miseration only features the latter – but when I saw him with Scar Symmetry two years ago he tore it up. Not to mention he was funny as hell after the show, talking it up with some of us lucky fans and telling us how every bit of food he’s had in America had a ton of cheese on it, in which he proceeded to extend and rub bellies with his band mates. Ha, I’ll never forget that.
The album is already out in Europe because they’re a bunch of European metal bastards, but it’ll be available on the 19th in the U.S. If you’re an eager beaver, you can pre-order the album from Lifeforce records, but don’t forget to swing by and hear the new tunes on their myspace page.
CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED was produced by Jason Suecof and recorded at his Orlando, FL based studio, Audiohammer Studios, and boasts an all-star lineup consisting of some of metal’s most talented musicians. Richard Christy, former drummer for Death and Iced Earth, comedian, and radio personality on the legendary Howard Stern Show on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio, on drums. Famed producer Jason Suecof who has produced and/or mixed some of the most prominent albums from metal’s leading bands, including: Trivium, All That Remains, The Black Dahlia Murder, Chimaira, DevilDriver and many, many more, on guitars. Tim “Ripper” Owens, who fronted heavy metal legends Judas Priest from 1996 to 2002, performed alongside Richard in Iced Earth from 2003 to 2004, and currently performs with Beyond Fear and Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force, on vocals. And one of metal’s most heralded bassists, Steve Digiorgio, who played alongside Richard in the bands Control Denied and Iced Earth, and has also performed with Death, Autopsy, Testament, Vintersorg, and is a founding member of technical thrash pioneers Sadus.
