You can tell when a band is going in the right direction but some aspects of their music are not yet mature enough as to show just how good they can be; this Mexicans have a good sense of the type of melodic metal they want to play, but they still lack the experience as to consolidate some of the minor details that make a band stand out in a very crowed sub genre like melodic death is this days.
All the songs have that peculiar and very catchy melodic blend between death vocals and heavy metal guitars, but for some reason they fail to grab or perhaps stick to some of their more appealing riffs and hooks, wasting a great opportunity to become a more lasting listening experience, and that’s just sad because Sabacthani does have some great songs that could become outstanding examples of Mexican metal over time.
Some of the good qualities of the band are the inclusion of several “types” of vocal approaches like the “Destruction” type vocals in different segments of the album, a very peculiar German like thrash scream that provides some songs like “Scents to Fatality” with an extra dimension or some Judas Priest like screams like in “Reasons or Lie”, showing that this band has many ideas that might help them further down the line to develop an exiting and unique sound. Even thou the production is not the best and relinquishes some important guitar segments to a muddy background, “A Rising from Here” sounds clear and understandable enough for the listener to grasp more easily the rhythms been displayed on the songs, like in the great “Under the Storm”.
Generally speaking Sabacthani sounds like a band with a purpose, and that purpose is to find a unique sound that best describes them and not the genre they have been assigned with, still is doesn’t sound like this album is going to become a huge success but you can definitely hear a good future for them.
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