Sun of the Suns -- growling grooving heaviness from Italy

Sun of the Suns

TIIT

Scarlet Records

20 August 2021

The available propaganda says that this entity involves members of Carnality, The Modern Age Slavery and Nightland: Luca Dave Scarlatti on vocals, with both Marco Righetti and Ludovico Cioffi on guitars. They apparently have recruited Fleshgod Apocalypse drummer Francesco Paoli, and DGM/Empyrios bassist Simone Mularoni, who also produced, recorded, mix and mastered. In short, the album features veterans from death, deathcore, tech-death, power/heavy, and prog Italian bands.

The music focuses on fast, chunky grooving rhythms and deep, gruff growling. During some moments the low-string plucking really booms, while at other times the pace is headbanging. Energy and grooves is their bread and butter, throwing down as hard as they can on the downtuned heaviness and keeping it uptempo and often fast, including blasting. Here and there, there are some background bits, and some guitar solos for some melodic moments, but in the main it’s hard-hitting fast groove heaviness.

The band/recording team really know their onions in contemporary, polished, mechanized sound. At times it points towards a form of heavy/fast industrial-deathcore, given the artificial sound of the sampled drumming that emphasizes the simple, soft, heavy computerized one-dimensional up/down beat. Some will love the mechanized style, while others may find it rather impotent, but deathcore fanatics wanting to hear a current Italian interpretation of the style could grow to enjoy the well-done speedy grooves.

SUN OF THE SUNS - The Golden Cage (Official Video) https://www.facebook.com/sunofthesunsofficial