TYRANT - Pray for the Night (official music video)

Tyrant

The Lowest Level

Pavement Entertainment

30 September 2022

I was too slow to recognize how good this album is. For whatever reasons, it has taken me a bit longer to listen to the album in a real way. I kept playing it over and over, sensing that there may be something good here, but perhaps being too distracted to notice it. It's not that the songs need repeated listens. It's not that it is prog or complex or weird. It's not that there is something wrong. There is nothing wrong. It is not "an adquired taste," which is a nice to say that a band may have strange vocals or that something else that is too weird.

This is a band that plays thrashy heavy metal with singing. They are thrashy enough to play on the same stage as thrash bands and plenty traditional heavy metal to share the stage with those bands, too. There are also melodic death metal leanings found in the guitar and rhythms. There are many ways to understand it, as contemporary heavy metal, as melodic thrash, as power thrash, as classic Iced Earth/Metal Church "U.S. power metal" or even something like a contemporary interpretation of Anthrax's 1985 album Spreading the Disease, before Anthrax well all-out, all-cylinders nonstop thrash in 1987.

Anyway, my point is that quality songwriting is important to the band, and things like speed are secondary. They are not afraid to work with various moods. It's not retro heavy metal.

I understand now. I should have recognized the quality more quickly than I have. This is a very enjoyable album. Keep your eyes out for this band. They are young. I hope that you will give them a chance and take notice that they are playing heavy metal in a way that sounds young or fresh, and not like a tired style.

TYRANT - Pray for the Night (Official Music Video)

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