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Ashes of Pompeii are a four piece band from Marburg in Germany and formed
back in 2004, the band are well known in the touring circuit of Germany
and have also played on the Taste Of Chaos tour 2006 in Germany alongside
some great bands such as Taking Back Sunday, Saosin, Anti-Flag and a few
others. Despite this, Ashes Of Pompeii are pretty new to me.
The bands debut album 'The End Begins Tomorrow' is being released in the
UK towards the end of September. From the bands name and album name and
also the fact that they come from Germany I was expecting them to be an
extremely heavy band but they are more of a melodic sounding band with
a few heavy moments.
The album opens up with 'This Is The Spat' which starts off with some
spoken word vocals and extremely fast guitar playing, sing a long vocals
soon come in though leading up to the catchy chorus. The song does feature
some growling backing vocals that seem to fit in place.
'Collapse//Collide' has quite a long technical introduction, the vocals
take about 45 seconds to come in but are worth the wait as Tobi Moesch
has a nice and strong voice that works really well in this band.
There are so many highlights on this album such as the rocking introduction
of 'Recording The Fall' to the short instrumental of 'Incidence' to the
stunning powerful vocals in 'Cuba Dive' and the outstanding 'Sometimes
Friendship Can Be Murder' which has such a great introduction and a wide
mixture of vocals chopping and changing from sing a long to growls in
no time at all.
There aren’t many flaws in this album but 'Last Light You Pass By'
is a really chilled out almost acoustic sounding track that is not going
to appeal to everyone but it’s not necessarily a bad song.
Overall Ashes Of Pompeii are a good band, they didn’t sound anything
like what I was expecting but they were still surprisingly a good band.
If you like indie and screamo music but not sure which genre you like
the best, I’m sure you will like Ashes Of Pompeii as they bring
in the best of both worlds especially with their mixture of vocals.
4 /5
Review by Trigger |
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Tobi (Vocals, Guitar)
Lukas (Vocals, Guitar)
Michi (Vocals, Bass)
Nolty (Drums) |
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1. This Is The Split
2. Collapse / Collide
3. Conversation Autopilot
4. Recording The Fall
5. Incidence
6. Cuba Dive
7. Sometimes Friendship Can be Murder
8. Prosa Nostra
9. The Lover's Attempt To Despise
10. Last Light You Pass By
11. The End Begins Tomorrow |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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