Honour Among None
The Art of Survival EP
For such an intense blast of visceral meets harmonic metal, it seems like something of a joke to include a ‘radio edit’ on an EP. This is the music for the elevator ride to hell, not the car journey to work and there’s only a paltry twenty-second saving anyhow.
Leaving aside the merits of radio-editing, for a band such as this, what ‘The Art of Survival’ supplies is a series of blasting metal tracks played to perfection and flipping vocals between sung and gurgling blood.
Except for ‘Face to Face’ (which benefits from a more riffy industrial sound) Honour Among None seem to struggle to find an anchor or identity in these tracks. As mentioned, they are instrumentally perfected, but just not entirely interesting.
This record is a bit too self-indulgent and may only really appeal to stalwart metal fans.
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