SOULSCAR - Victim Impact Statement
January 19, 2005, 19 years ago
(Galy)
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The Brave bunch have always marveled at the high quality and creativity of Andrew Staehling's Soulscar demos, so all eyes were on the big step-up to well-run indie Galy Records. Staehling does not disappoint, even if the booklet and cover are still a bit on the indie side. No, the music enclosed upholds the band's long-standing tradition for eerily addictive quick-footed melodic death. And man, don't take that as this band being another in a crowd, 'cos Soulscar have been doing this for years, and the individuality shows, in the band's frantic, intimates style, in the daring, crazy melodies, in the odd arrangements. What's more, there's a very singular sort of treble-shrill sound to the drum tracks of Igor Cheifot that add to the esteemed feeling one gets that this is a band on a blindered path all their own, a path without much of a diet or stomach for outside influence. A bit of prog to it, a bit of doom, a bit of avant garde, but if anything, I hear a bold lack of compromise - Victim Impact Statement is just the kind of record to prime the modern front-edge thrash fan as he waits for the new Omnium Gatherum.