SOULDRINKER – War Is Coming

SOULDRINKER - War Is Coming
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El Puerto Records / Soulfood Music
Release date: November 3, 2017

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“Let The King Bleed”, the first cut off Souldrinker’s debut album War Is Coming begins with an ominous spoken word intro—a theory on how to kill God, no less–before launching into a powerful musical assault from a band in tight sync, drums rolling like thunder before bass and guitar join in. All these elements set the stage for Iris Boanta’s unequivocally incredible vocals. She displays a wide range on just the one song, flying high, going low, joining in harmony. Her vocal range is indicative of the Souldrinker’s scope as a band; they seamlessly blend Melodic, Power, and Classic Metal elements over the course of the album.

Track two, the eponymous “Souldrinker” is a classic headbanger with a wicked space invader run in the center of the solo. “Promised Land” and “To The Tick” intentionally take the energy down a couple notches, the latter beginning with an intro that sees Iris accompanied by gentle piano until the band cuts it off with a vicious wall of sound. Anthemic “Raise The Flag” boasts some of the best vocal harmonies to match some of the riffage on the album. The well-named “Voices” (Iris is triple-tracked, at least, on the chorus) begins with a jagged, almost Voivod-ian guitar figure before settling into a more traditional Metal charge. Last track “Final Stand” is the perfect encore song, a defiant fist-shake that has Iris’s impassioned chorus backed by the band in full assault mode. Great songs, great production, and great performances make War Is Coming a late essential pickup for 2017.

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  • Daniel Waters

    Daniel was a reviewer here at Metal Express Radio. Iron Maiden’s Piece Of Mind wasn’t the first Metal album he owned, but it was the one that lifted the lid off his soul when he received the record as a gift on his 15th birthday. He's been a Metal fan ever since. He's probably best known as the author of various Young Adult novels such as the Generation Dead series and the ghost story Break My Heart 1,000 Times, now also a major motion picture entitled I Still See You, starring Bella Thorne. Writing and music, especially Heavy Metal music, has always been inextricably linked in his mind and career. His first paid gig doing any type of writing was for Cemetery Dance, where he wrote a horror-themed music column called Dead Beats, and when he was writing the first Generation Dead novel he had a ritual where he started his writing day with a Metal playlist that kicked off with “Crushing Belial” by Shadows Fall.

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