review: Die Another Day

Die Another Day

Wild Fire

10 April 2020

DAD is new and contemporary metalcore from Canada. The EP highlights the hard/soft, harsh/melodic, scream/sing style of the band, the duality of the sound. It’s not about how heavy they throw down, and they clearly can take the grooves into extreme areas, but it’s how they bring it back to the melodies to create the contrast.

It is the work of a young band. Ambitious and eager to show the world what they are capable of doing, but nobody, including the musicians themselves, knows exactly what that is. They use the guitar for grooves and rhythm, but not really yet for melodies, which they currently create through singing and supplement with studio sounds, like background electronic/techo beats that are present, but are not pushed forward as the main thing in the music. These things add a sense of interesting playfulness with metalcore. Another example, the intro track is a techno/industrial beat, but it is only a hint of something, not a song. In all, it appears that the production team put an effort into adding spices to the metalcore mix, and it remains to be seen where it all goes: could a techno/dance big beat component be incorporated into the metalcore? Will the guitarists grow as players and develop a deeper interest in the art of the big riff, whether it’s Zep/Sabbath/Priest or Metallica/Slayer/Killswitch/Lamb or some other type of riffing?

Fans looking for the younger sounds and curious to hear what a new generation is doing with metalcore in 2020 may enjoy DAD’s interpretation of the style.

DIE ANOTHER DAY - Wild Fire (Official Lyric Video) Metalcore

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