There is some appealing “intensity” in the flat, monotonous way of laying down the vocals on this album. The way Nefta goes in and out of every track is similar, approaching every single song with the same out of control death squeal and carrying the same tempo no matter what the guitars are doing in the background, and to me that is not good, it disturbs and hides some nice riffs that suffer from the lack of “variety” on the singers part; but in the other hand it keeps the album angry and fast at every single point, and for a melodic death metal outfit that can’t be that bad!

I guess I should introduce the band before I start criticizing their work, how rude of me… if you notice for the title of the album Sound of Silence is from Gijon, Spain, and they play a very “obvious” melodic death metal with lyrics in Spanish, so the question is why have an English based named when absolutely everything else is in Spanish? Is just a question nothing really serious on my argument that, why not go for a full Spanish approach?

Like in every respectable melodic metal band SS wisely focuses every song on the twin attach from Sete and Rubo (I feel like I’m writing about a black metal band with “regular” instead of demonic nicknames) who don’t really do a bad job here is just that they don’t have many interesting riffs, or remarkable segments of “catchiness” to make the album or any song memorable.

To be fair this Spaniards do have a raw “Mors principium est” sort of approach, not as melodic as their Swedish counterparts but they do share that same anger and speed, like I said that natural, organic raw feeling flowing through every song.

Some of the tracks, at least the first four songs have a very intense melancholic, depressing lyrics wise approach, almost to what you could expect from a doom band and not from a fast melodic death squat.

In general Sound of Silence’s debut is not bad, maybe reminding some to the type of melodic death that some USA bands have begun to apply by mixing a little hardcore into the guitars and the vocals, bands like The Black Dahlia Murder comes to mind; still that doesn’t really makes this an album to come back to after a couple of spins.