There’s a vibrancy, with a slight dark and deadly twist, that runs through ‘The Unholy Feast’ the second album from The More I See, the Cambridgeshire 4 some formed by ex-Prodigy - remember them? - Gizz Butt, it’s the same vicious guitar assault sound that he gave the bulk of The Prodigy’s ‘The Fat Of The Land’, that roars and spits its way across this record. Particularly on the title track, where the guitars become almost operatic, and its like riding that ghost train in your nightmares across a dark desert, if that description makes them sound like they’re going prog, then its not far from the truth, it’s a bit like Muse if they’re really piled on the pounds, beefed up, and really let loose, its basically heads down head thrashing rock which takes you on a trip to the back of your mind, and it doesn’t let up. This is by the way just on the back of one track. This is clearly where Gizz’s heart well and truly belongs; deep down and dirty heavy guitar rock that attempts to tear you a new arse hole and probably will succeed too. The opening track ‘What’s Worse Than The Truth’, is basically the sound of Metallica wearing a different beard, and it’s the sound of heavy metal rock being given a new lease of life. The More I See’s vocalist Chad Sunderland (surly he has the perfect name for a metal front man?) has classic rock heavy, cautionary, sounding tone to his voice, where he sounds like a cross between Metallica’s frontman and Raging Speedhorns frontman particularly on ‘Ratcatcher’ which is the sound of Black Sabbath doom cemetery rock being devoured by Raging Speedhorn’s maniacal face hugging face mangling rabid as a dog on heat rock, with an added classic sheen too it.
But then Chad comes more into his own later on, particularly on ‘Fear Of Death’ which carries on from the title track before it and magnifies the operatic guitar rock 10 fold. ‘Empty’ starts on a quieter note before building and expanding and really blowing your head off. There’s some strong lyrics on display too, with a religious overtone, particularly on ‘The Decadence Within’, as Chad bellows at us ‘The souls you steal, the souls you deal/ Are the souls you bleed/ For the decadence within.’ Also on the aforementioned title track, and as you might expect from an album and track entitled ‘The Unholy Feast’, Chad sings rather thrillingly, ‘Somebody call the priest, this is the unholy feast, sink your teeth, into the unholy feast.’ And with gleeful lyrics like that it may well cause several priest and kids parents to have a panic and start moaning about the album and try and band their ‘children’ to stop reading Kerrang magazine or something. ‘The Unholy Feast’ finishes of with the Slayer-esque thrashed out, hollering, bone shaking, riff of metal sheets of ‘Veiled By Greed’.
The More I See are destined to go down a storm at the various metal tents this summer, but on the strength of this album, its not hard to see them topping the bill at the likes of Download and Reading and Leeds festivals. The riffs are roaring, the solos are sizzling and swinging, and the vocals are commanding, and all in all ‘The Unholy Feast’ from The More I See is a powerful album. So despite the fact that is blazing glorious sunshine outside, at least for the time being, this album just makes you want to draw back the curtains turn the volume up and rock the fuck out, it has that vibrancy about.
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