Hard to stick a label to them, the French band Eyes Front North delivered on their debut EP a gloomy and extremely diversified mixture of metal blended through their own filter and blue colored. From classic, Venom taste like black metal to the brutal riffing of thrash/nu grinding Sepultura and from hardcore like raging to contorted match metal and post-rock, these guys took the literal sense of crossover (and back, and through again), they take inspiration from different roots and (sub) genres and it seems that they targeted the elimination of any musical and stylistically boundaries, but staying metal. Future metal? Well, the future sounds dark, cutting and distorted, but definitively worth a trip into it under the guidance of Eyes Front North.
The EP consist of three epic songs, “Worn As Mask” running over 8 minutes while “A Reaching Hand” and “Words”, both, are running over 7 minutes. Complex and colorful, filled with dark shades and cut to the bone riffs, but also singable choruses, memorable themes and colorful harmonies, Eyes Front North sounds already mature and determined and their music combine efficiently the gloomy hypnotic atmosphere from post-rock and doom/sludge metal and the energy of hardcore with the aggression of thrash and nu metal. Intense, still colorful, progressive, but not abstract, Eyes Front North find their own path and sound and definitively they are staring into the future.
Started as a studio project in 2010 by Lionel FOREST (vocals / guitar), Nicolas Simon (guitar) and Victor Tuhran (bass), they recorded these songs at the Dual Switch Cuts Studio in Vincennes (France), while the drums were performed and recorded by drummer Conny Pettersson of the Swedish death metal band Anata in Sweden February 2011. The final mix and mastering was made in DSC Studio in May 2011.
Meanwhile, Fabrice Berger drummer of the progressive metal band The Black Noodle Project joined the band and that allows now live performances. They already opening for the French group SUP.
Eyes Front North currently promotes their EP and search for concerts and a serious label for their first album that is scheduled for a February 2012 release.
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