 
From the ashes of the once great British metal
act Panic Cell comes rebirth and new blood in
the form of Seven Deadly, they already headlined
the Take Over stage at this year’s Download
Festival and now have some material available.
Panic Cell were a big force on the UK metal scene
over the years but as the years went by their
reputation started taking hits with their musical
quality and performances on the decrease over
time towards their inevitable demise. But they
were quite big at one point so to your publicity
around that name requires a certain bringing you’re
a game, majorly or may it never be used again.
Wow, believe me, this material is big. Powerful
metal tracks with melodic yet aggressive choruses,
superb growl vocals and an even balance of each.
“Allegiance” is high octane and extremely
powerful, the tracks actually very reminiscent
of Welsh metallers Anterior in many ways except
they don’t dabble with clean vocals. “Blood
On Your Hands” is more on my level its quite
the bruiser there a couple things I’d change
about these 2 tracks but very little things. “End
of All” is my personal favourite from this
EP; it’s got the symphonic elements with
extremely melodic sections but then drags it all
down to the depths of hell with some savage breakdowns.
“From This Darkness” as well follows
the general structure found within “End
of All” but it’s just not as impressive
as its predecessor.
The only things I’d change about this release
to make it perfect would be to add better guitar
solos as the ones present are good just not as
fitting as they could be, alongside this the clean
vocals have a tendency to be flat at various points
and in the whole their style could be drastically
improved if they had more range involved. Apart
from that I’m actually genuinely quite impressed
this sort of stuff is still emerging on the scene,
see you soon lads!
4/5
Review By James Webb
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