{"id":26155,"date":"2013-11-01T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-death-remains-stand-fight\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:29:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:29:27","slug":"album-review-death-remains-stand-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-death-remains-stand-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Death Remains &#8211; Stand. Fight. Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_inline_mvje2dRhMC1qztcot.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">This is more than just sheer technical brilliance. This is passion. <i>&ldquo;This is <strong>DEATH REMAINS<\/strong>&rdquo;<\/i>\u00a0is just one of the modest claims that adorn the London metal outfit\u2019s Facebook page, a tool that manages to be informative, incredibly cheesy (see: the above quote) and more than a little self-satisfied. Observe as the band, or perhaps their ill-informed PR managers, share their sharp observations and scathing criticism of the scene they belong to: \u2018This is the new generation of British youth employing crushing rhythms and devastating riffs, injecting life into a genre plagued by rip-offs and wannabes\u2019. The irony, I hope, isn\u2019t lost on anyone. Indeed, though, what could be more revitalising to a genre almost entirely founded on the combination of devastating riffs and crushing rhythms than MORE DEVASTATING RIFFS AND CRUSHING RHYTHMS? Were we to assume this to be correct, then <strong>Death Remains<\/strong>\u2019 debut album <em>\u2018Stand. Fight. Believe\u2019<\/em> should certainly prove the crux of a renaissance of British metal.<\/p>\n<p>This refreshing new wave of great metal, the pioneers of which the quintet claim to be, is however nothing but an artifice. Don\u2019t get me wrong, <strong>Death Remains<\/strong> can justifiably boast of a certain technical prowess, they deliver \u2018THE HEAVINESS\u2019 with aplomb and a healthy consistency (though they\u2019re not unwilling to indulge in instances of melody), but these are only the preliminary foundations necessary for the making of good metal. Great metal requires going at least a little further than the bare necessities, a distance the band seem unwilling to cover. The album feels closer to topping up gas for your reliable Volvo than abandoning yourself to the exhilarating experience of high speeds in your spanking new sports car (I imagine).<!-- more --><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The band are perhaps at their most anthemic on <em>\u2018Blood Brothers\u2019<\/em>. Lightning-fast snare work opens fire, the riffs \u2018chuggah\u2019 their way through with power and intensity while O\u2019Connor\u2019s interesting work of \u2018not quite growl, not quite clean\u2019 (for which I give a major thumbs up by the way). There\u2019s significant brutality here but it\u2019s also effortlessly blended with a rousing chorus that\u2019ll immediately latch onto your memory. <em>\u2018The Northern Massacre\u2019<\/em> strays a little from traditional song structures to indulge in an \u2018early-eight\u2019 if you will, that channels Defeater-esque levels of despair.<\/p>\n<p>The major highlight on <em>\u2018Stand. Fight. Believe\u2019<\/em> is undoubtedly ante-penultimate track <em>\u2018Innocence\u2019<\/em>. Whereas most, if not all, of the tracks on the album open all cylinders firing, <em>\u2018Innocence\u2019<\/em> delays the sonic collision with a little build-up, before unleashing both pace and anger with gusto. The reality is there\u2019s little to complain with on this album. The tight musicianship, physical brutality, soaring choruses, make it one perfectly spot-on run-of-the-mill metal album. Refill the Volvo, go to work, tape Doctor Who, listen to some metalcore, sleep, die.<\/p>\n<p>3\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>&lsquo;Stand. Fight. Believe&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Death Remains<\/strong> is released on 4th November on <strong>In At The Deep End Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Death Remains<\/strong> links:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeathRemainsUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deathremainsuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by James Berclaz-Lewis (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swissbearclaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@swissbearclaw<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is more than just sheer technical brilliance. 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