HATESPHERE - Ballet Of The Brute

HATESPHERE
Ballet Of The Brute
Century Media
7.5/10





Jacob Bredahl sounds like he really wants to kick someone's ass! His vocals are snarling, scaberous and downright angry.

Hatesphere plays a style of roughhouse metalcore that jars your spine with pummeling blows. Ander Gyldenohr smashes the skins admirably, creating pit inducing beats that are locked into the groove and forceful.

"Warhead" is a pulverizing exercise in raw power, getting started with on old school Flotsam and Jetsam style riff. Hatesphere lean more to the thrash side of the metalcore dialectic, "Deathtrip" is another "banger where the guitars mirror early Kreator and Bredahl really lets his vocals loose. This track clocks in at only 1:54 and and is the kind of over before you know it and you don't know what hit
you affairs that leaves you wanting to hear more.

"Vermin" is positively frantic during the verses whit again, some really cool vocals on the hook, where Jacob switches up his vocals a bit and shows that he is a master of several different styles of vox.

Thrash stalwarts Demolition Hammer come to mind on "Downward to Nothing", while "500 Dead People" brings to mind the crunching detuned attack of Scott Ian, Before marching into a metalcore assault complete with gunshots and stomping double bass thumps.

Speaking of Anthrax, you'll find a really cool cover of one of that band's greatest songs, "Caught In A Mosh". The band really does the track justice, while adding a bit of grit to the performance.

But wait, headbangers, there's more! You'll also hear another well done cover of Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark At The Moon" which is done in a style that is so ripping that you would think that it was old Slayer at first. Jacob certainly does not try to imitate the Prince of Darkness in any way, instead opting to incorporate his own toughened core vocals over lightning quick six string diversions.

Both of these covers are fashioned in Hatesphere's own design and may well expose a new generation to the fine works of these classic performers. Hatesphere is a group that'll be successful with its music if the band hits the road and stays there for a while, Ballet of the Brute is A plus concert material.

Hatesphere is hitting its stride and I'm certain we can expect even greater things to come from these thrashing, young, very un-gentle men.


Written By: Bangs Gorely