On disc: Quake The Earth

 
 We Choose To Walk This Path
 
- Lars Bjørn -
 
 


 
 We Choose To Walk This Path
 
- Stephanie Malin -
 
 

We Choose To Walk This Path

(Inverse Records - 2012)



 
 

 

Finnish hardcore band Quake The Earth's album We Choose To Walk This Path is heavy from start to finish (excuse the pun). The opening song, The Predator, blends nicely into the succeeding We Own The Streets, which has arguably what could be some of the best hard-hitting guitar work of the year. The Unknown has some unexpected but welcome clean vocals, showing that the band knows what the word 'diversity' means and is willing to utilize it. Finger On The Trigger marks a return to form to the more typical hardcore metal sound. Title track We Choose To Walk This Path has a distinctive riff, although the song is much more than that, and again some clean vocals are dropped in there, but of course everything still sounds like Quake The Earth. From This Day To Last Day is distinctly nondescript, but the short track that follows, We Are The Enemy (that clocks in at just under two minutes), is certainly memorable and also beautifully melodic - though still heavy, of course. After that we have Brand New Day and then There Mofos; not bad songs, but much like From This Day To Last Day, they are easy to forget. The awesome ascending melody in No Man Is Bigger Than A Bodybag will most likely be branded into your cerebral cortex, along with the darkly hilarious song title. Crusader is also a catchy little number, using a few different musical techniques in less than three minutes. The vocals in Mask Of Deception mix clean and harsh incredibly well, and the lyrics are also more memorable than most others on the album. You can even find some slow rap effectively weaved into Red And White alongside the usual heavy guitars and pounding drums rhythms. The final track on the album, titled Punainen Hevonen, is an almost serene track, and undoubtedly the 'softest' on the album, as it were; it is laced with delicate guitar solos and nice alterations on riffs.



Overall, this album is probably worth a listen. It has some boring and forgettable tracks - like almost every album - but the majority of the songs are solid pieces of hardcore metal. There are some little gems, too, and there is enough diversity on the album to appeal to all sorts of people, even those not keen on hardcore.

 
 










Stephanie Malin


  
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We Choose To Walk This Path

(Inverse Records - 2012)



 
 

 

The band from Finland who want to enter the world of thrash metal with a blast is called Quake The Earth, playing fast and dirty aggressive metal with a talent which speaks loud and clear. Their songs goes is the same small path all together, but this is what they have selected to do. Their album is called We Choose To Walk This Path. Energy and cold aggression is keywords to make a direction for Quake The Earth, but the negative part is that most of their songs is similar to each other, and any new ideas in the music are few and far between. We Own The Streets is an acceptable song full of aggression in their thrash metal fundament. Otherwise it's the title song We Choose To Walk This Path which survives best of the 14 songs on the debut full-length album from Quake The Earth. But let's see what the band can bring on their next album, the talent and energy is present, that is for sure.

 
 










Lars Bjørn


  
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