Album Review: Behind The Horror - Burn Up This Truth
Reviewed by Carl Black
The subtle art of the transition from one riff to the next. How long do you make it? Where do you place it in the song? how many do you have? These are all questions that the good, the great and the indifferent have to answer. For some it’s a simple affair, for other its well over the top but they are always there. This Brazilian duo (fighting out of New Jersey) of brothers Gabriel and Lucas Alves love a transition. So much so that the song 'Storm Rage' sounds like one big transition. They bob and weave and weave and bob all over this album.
Adopting this ever changing riffage technique can lead to the album sounding as if it’s miss firing like an old red Nissan Cherry. But not for Behind The Horror. They have fixed this jerky issue with the riffs themselves. The riffs are from a classic thrash base with a touch of prog, metal and death. They are very easy to listen to and they repeat throughout the song, however, don’t get too comfortable. The brothers Alves not only vary the transitions from long and deliberate to sometimes, no transition at all, they also mix the riffs up as if they are making a thrash metal smoothie. It’s like they have jumbled up the riffs into a crazy order just to mess with our heads. Pile on the vocals which sound like Jeff Walker of Carcass having a row with his next door neighbour.
This will pull you one way and then push you another. The riffs come fast and furious but are easy to listen to and have plenty of hooks. But the variety of transitions are this bands secret weapon. You think you have them sussed but you’ll be wrong, as they go into another direction and back again.
