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Lavondyss were an unknown band to me until a few
days ago and I have now learnt many things such
as their new EP 'Nibiru' was recorded in my home
town of Tetbury, Gloucestershire and was produced
by Devil Sold His Soul's guitarist Jonny Renshaw
at his private studio with Fastlane guitarist Matty
O' Grady mastering the record and it seems like
the team work from Jonny and Matty could be taking
many UK bands by storm as they are both working
on production and mastering duties on the forthcoming
Deaf Havana EP which I am really looking forward
to, anyway enough of the history lesson lets get
back to Lavondyss.
So Lavondyss have been touring across the whole
of UK for the past two years pretty much non stop
and they released their debut EP 'Available For
Children's Parties' pretty much this time last
year, it was a self financed release and helped
gain the band a good name in the underground UK
hardcore scene and helped catch the attention
of A Wolf At Your Door Records who soon snapped
the band up.
The bands new EP 'Nibiru' is now here and is
6 tracks in length and to be fair it’s one
of the best EP's I have heard from an up and coming
English hardcore band in sometime, it’s
got the technical ness of Protest The Hero mixed
with the heaviness of The Fall Of Troy and some
catchy sing along moments thrown into the mix
for good measures.
The EP opens with '...Meanwhile...Back On Earth'
and the song opens in such an angry fashion with
meaty guitar riffs that’s heavy enough to
rip your face off and raw screams loud and angry
enough to match the huge guitar riffs and then
out of no where the vocals become really poppy
and sing along but not for long as the vocals
revert back to their shouty ways and a fast assault
of drumming kicks off, the song is structured
well, there is a lot on offer and there is a lot
of stopping and starting and changes in music
styles such as the eerie chilled out sounding
instrumental piece that runs from 1 minute 17
seconds until the song explodes into madness at
1 minute and 51 seconds, from moments like this
you can clearly see that Lavondyss are talented
song writers and are going to find it a breeze
progressing their sound in the future.
The introduction to 'A Giant Warned Me', screams
out Protest the Hero to me as its technical and
as heavy as Protest The Hero are but what makes
this different is the chilled out breakdowns and
the machine gun style guitar riffs and drum beats
that come and go throughout the song, as the song
closes you get another Protest The Hero feel with
the fade out effect running across the bands more
sing along vocals.
All the songs on the EP are quality but shine
for totally different reasons from each other,
for example the best moment about 'For Future
Reference' is the fierce and explosive 20 second
introduction that quickly turns from madness to
mellow soundscapes and more chilled out near spoken
word sing along singing. 'Were It So Easy' is
a great song from start to finish and has so many
top moments throughout it, the vocals are the
most sing along on the album and stand out so
much but at the same time the raw screams that
work along side the sing along vocals work equally
well, the breakdowns are great at one point you
are left with just the instrument distortion sounds
before the Lee Tysall treats us to some kind of
built up drum solo.
The EP finishes with '00:00', the song is a full
on instrumental track and it’s like a bit
of a resting point from the previous 25 minutes
of madness that you have just listened to and
gives you a bit of time to get your head straight
again after taking in so much in such a short
amount of time as to be fair Lavondyss have crammed
so much into a 6 track EP.
Lavondyss have what it takes to become pretty
huge, their new EP 'Nibiru' can’t be faulted
and to be honest it leaves me wanting to hear
more from them as they have something special
going on, they are like an English version of
Protest The Hero with a more experimental edge
and that’s a good thing as Protest The Hero
are one of my favourite bands at the moment.
It’s going to be interesting to see if
people pick up on Lavondyss, I really hope they
do as otherwise all this talent will be wasted.
I will certainly be checking Lavondyss out on
the live circuit in September when they tour with
We Are Fiction as I am quite positive that their
live show won’t disappoint.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Rob Vicars (Vocals)
Sam Barnard (Guitars, Vocals)
Joe Fisher (Guitar)
Sebastian Deery (Bass)
Lee Tysall (Drums) |
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1. ...Meanwhile...Back On Earth
2. A Giant Warned Me
3. For Future Reference
4. Were It So Easy
5. Interval At A Ghost Show
6. 00:00 |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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