Soulscar

Demo

Review by Neil St.Laurent

Thanks to the band for the Cassette

Soulscar, despite an obvious sound toward the genre, can't be called a typical death metal band. While the structure and intensity are at the extreme there is something different about the sound that really makes it stand in a different light. The question of importance however is whether this recorded sound is as a result of bad production or it was strived for completely.

Putting the production flaws aside (as certain songs indicate much of that buzzing sound was not intended in the music) the band still does hold some unique qualities. The music is extremely easy to get into, that is it holds a certain riffing structure with an upbeat pattern with neither an excess in emotion or technicality; plain and simple. The rest of the music basically situates itself around this guitar driven core; not to downplay the intrigingly industrial style drumming. To the point where even Andrew realized it by mixing them low, the vocals are nothing spectacular and are played as just another melodic instrument (quite harmonized and without rapid fluctuations in intensity).

For a demo band I don't think one could expect anything more than what Soulscar provides. While the production on some of the songs is not very good, the skillful guitarwork more than compensates. It escapes the death genre somewhat by not being too muddy sounding, a trend we see with many bands now. Definitely worth checking out and hopefully an album is in the near future.

Soulscar is Andrew Staehling

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