{"id":39418,"date":"2018-03-15T18:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-will-haven-muerte\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:22:54","slug":"review-will-haven-muerte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-will-haven-muerte\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Will Haven &#8211; Muerte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/b311b45adb793b3a8a987cdc1279a987\/tumblr_oczgq9lfGb1r8no6so3_r144_1280.jpg\" width=\"250em\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><i>\u2018Open the Mind to Discomfort\u2019<\/i> was a disheartening offering from Sacramento noise-metallers <b>Will Haven<\/b> upon its 2015 release. For a group once revered for their urgency and feral caged-animal intensity throughout their stellar turn-of-the millennium run on <i>\u2018El Diablo\u2019<\/i>, <i>\u2018WHVN\u2019<\/i> and <i>\u2018Carpe Diem\u2019<\/i>. The EP was the victim of tumultuous lineup changes, sounding tired and unfocused.<\/p>\n<p>However, time can heal old wounds, and in the three years since the EP\u2019s release, <b>Will Haven<\/b> has become a more stable and confident unit. Having allowed bassist Adrien Contreras to settle, sixth full-length <i>\u2018Muerte\u2019<\/i> assures the quartet are back to their best.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>If <i>\u2018El Diablo\u2019<\/i> presents the sporadic chaos of a band having to perform in the middle of a storm, then <i>\u2018Muerte\u2019<\/i> is the typhoon itself. It\u2019s a pulsing dystopian landscape completed by piledriving metalcore riffs, scattergun lead guitar patterns, and a scathing vocal performance from frontman Grady Avenell who unleashes his catharsis of feeling hopeless and broken, and turns that fear into rage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"WILL HAVEN - El Sol (feat. Stephen Carpenter) [official video]\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnAF4Yu1tKw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Boasting a much thicker, towering guitar tone, Jeff Irwin creates a towering buildup of tension across this record, while a more mature songwriting approach stops listeners from guessing what the buildup will lead into. On tracks such as <i>\u2018Winds of Change\u2019<\/i> and <i>\u201843\u2019<\/i>, the band can switch from whiplash-inducing metalcore grooves to a doom metal arrangement that flows with a malicious slowness, like magma trailing down a volcano. <i>\u2018Unit K\u2019<\/i> and <i>\u2018Ladwig No. 949\u2019<\/i> are fuelled by pure adrenaline as dissonant lead guitar sections shoot out across the main rhythm like bullets bouncing off steel walls.<\/p>\n<p>What ultimately defines <i>\u2018Muerte\u2019<\/i> is the scale and grandeur behind these moments of despair and chaos. There\u2019s a graceful sense of pathos behind these layers of distortion that keeps you gripped from start to the closing note of the Stephen Carpenter co-written <i>\u2018El Sol\u2019<\/i>. <b>Will Haven<\/b> have re-emerged from a difficult patch as a more assured and focused band, and the result is an absolute triumph.<\/p>\n<p>4\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Muerte\u2019<\/i> by <b>Will Haven<\/b> is released on 23rd March on <b>minus HEAD Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Will Haven<\/b> links:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/willhavenband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willhavenband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Andy Davidson (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyrfDavidson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AndyrfDavidson<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Open the Mind to Discomfort\u2019 was a disheartening offering from Sacramento noise-metallers Will Haven upon its 2015 release. 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