Canada’s Arise And Ruin is back with their second album on Victory, “Night Storms Hailfire”. It’s the follow-up to 2007’s “The Final Dawn” and honestly I can’t remember anything about that one. Usually that’s not a good sign.
These dudes like their hardcore mixed with groovy death metal parts which is a pretty cool idea and I quickly found myself nodding along to “Bring The Rain” and “Thrashburn”. The production on this one is downright dirty and along with vocalist Ryan Bauchman’s growls, it provides decent headbanging material. Occasionally they will slow things down for sludgy parts like in “The Aftermath”. But most of the time, they sound as if they need to be somewhere else in ten minutes.
Somewhere around the halfway mark the songs all started to blend together which is a shame and I’ve heard this sound being done before and being done better by the Belgian act Rise And Fall, but overall this bastard child of Entombed and Hatebreed made a solid album with “Night Storms Hailfire”.
Score: 7 out of 10
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