What I loved the most about this album were the lyrics, the message or opinion this guys are trying to send in this album; it’s funny how metal has increased in sound quality and genre wise but when it comes to a message metal has somehow stay a little behind.
Well Neaera has taken upon themselves to write a heavy, fast, metalcore album that deals with some important topics; topics like democracy, exploitation of our planet, racism, religion, consumption and the effects of our past.
“Trade your freedom for the illusion of safety” shit great song and great lyrics, nice start for this album; so Let The Tempest Come is metalcore, but is leaning more into euro death metal than hardcore, there are no clean vocals like many metalcore American bands, just the shred force provided by Benny Hilleke’s voice and the melodic guitars creating nice catchy riffs with a couple of metalcore’s “stop & go” sections that actually fit very nicely into the mix.
This album could best be described as metalcore meets melodic death metal, the guitars and the drums combine perfectly to provide speed and aggressiveness in every tune, and that’s in part thanks to a great clean production, not the kind of production where many different weird sounds are placed on the instruments, no, the kind of production that knows when and what to enhance about every song, and it lets the instruments sound natural.
In a bad note, the songs, musically speaking lack of “individuality” what do I mean by this? Well I have heard this album at least 5 times, and they all sound the same, they are nice don’t get me wrong, but its hard to tell them apart, and that’s when the lyrics step up and save the day; Mechanisms Of Standstill is about the American’s fake democracy, Plagueheritage is about the Nazi and Aryan disease philosophies, God Forsaken Soil is a criticism towards the Vatican and their outdated values, HeavenHell about the exploitation of our planet, Desecrators a criticism to the different religions that try to impose themselves as the one and only truth, well and many more, you should buy the record to read them all.
This is Neaera’s second full length, and it definitely beats their first release The Rising Tide Of Oblivion; Let The Tempest Come is a tighter album and you can begin to see the pattern this guys are trying to place in their music, I just hope that for their third album they manage to put a little more emphasis on making every song a universe on its own.
