 
This Scottish 5 piece are looking to revive the
metalcore craze with their brand new EP. Metalcore
is a hard genre to break into now that the hype
and popularity is effectively depleted compared
to what it once was; even the few bands that manage
to make it, the competition within this genre
is fierce with bands like Killswitch Engage, All
That Remains, Atreyu, As I Lay Dying and thousands
more dominating the scene.
The band take elements from the increasingly popular
hardcore style of music and integrate them to
add a little bit of an extra something to their
sound; very subtle inclusion that doesn’t
completely take everything else away from the
style they wrote the majority of the music in,
just added some bouncy beats and brutal breakdowns.
“The Odyssey” has a rather dramatic
feel given off from the melodic guitar tones clashing
with the aggressive edge from the vocals, this
track is the track from the EP with the biggest
link to the hardcore influence but when the clean
vocals come in the vibe changes to a rather calming
one.
“Stories” starts off in exactly the
same way to the first track but I feel the chorus’s
are catchier as well as the fact it’s got
a lot more interesting guitar work dotted around.
The only real critique I’ve got for this
track is when the clean vocals and growls overlap
that they don’t really have the desired
complimentary effect that I think the band were
aiming for. The ending is really calm and spills
off into the final track “All The Hours”
which is much riffier than the other 2 songs and
has a lot of the aggression over melody effect
that “The Odyssey” incorporates, “All
The Hours” however pulls it off in a more
obvious way as opposed to the ominous style in
which “The Odyssey” used it.
With a debut album currently in the works, I feel
that there are great heights set for Mind Set
a Threat within the near future. One can only
hope that the band doesn’t start thinking
about adapting their sound to fit in with a lot
of the local British deathcore scene simply to
think they can pull more fans over because they
could lose a fair few, we’ll just have to
wait and see.
4/5
Review by James Webb
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