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BADASS SONG TITLE: Worship Demons
BADASS TRACK: Poisoned Tongues
Vastness plays what could be termed death thrash, but is typically a bit slower than the average band playing this style. While other bands lean on speed, Vastness leans on heaviness and their musical chops. The record opens with a doomy melodic intro, but descends into pounding mid-paced death metal with a blackened edge, and this shit is made for headbanging. It's not too fast, so your neck can keep up! The next track shows us the band's thrashier side, opening with an aggressive thrash riff before descending once more into mid-paced death metal stomp.
The recording is perfect. It's clear, clean, but not overdone and brickwalled all to hell like some bands. It has an almost analog warmth, and it's very easy on the ears. Why more bands don't approach their recording this way I'll never know. Loud is popular out there in the scene, I guess. These guys did it differently, and they achieved the perfect production for their sound. The songwriting is also quite competent, and features a lot of verse-chorus-verse songwriting that helps the songs stick in your head a little.
The album got just a bit boring for me as the tracks kept coming, and the songs blend together a bit due to a bit of a lack of variation in speed, but it's by no means bad stuff. I'd recommend it to those into this style, for sure. They really don't sound like other bands at all, either, which is nice. They seem to have their own identity already.
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