KILLJOY „Back To The Past”

Music: Progressive Heavy Metal
Website: www.killjoy.metal.pl
Country: Poland
Duration: 21:39
Cool songs: Puppet Show

Killjoy is a five piece Polish band and “Back to the Past” is a five song prelude to their full length “Enemigo”. Finding info on these guys was a struggle since there are numerous bands that share the same name and when I finally did pin down the right 'Killjoy', all the info was in Polish. The songs, however, are sung in fluent English. They are a progressive Heavy Metal band, which is a pleasant change from the normal brutal grind that I'm accustomed to hearing coming from the Polish underground. I guess there is an actual 'over' ground over there also.

The title track, “Back to the Past”, is some good old melodic Heavy Metal. Not old school, but progressive. “Sinner” drives with some good rhythm and shows some awesome lead work and some heavy drum kicking. “Milion Chwil” slows it down, but keeps some weight and is sung in Polish. “God's Commando” is some more good old Heavy Metal with more good leads and double bass drum kicking and “Puppet Show” weighs in at over five minutes and is the best track. It's got a heavy pounding rhythm mixed with seering leads and a mellow chorus which all fits together quite well.

It's definately a different side of the Polish scene than the stuff I normally hear. Clean vocals are somewhat new to me coming from that part of the Metal world, but it certainly proves that good Heavy Metal still has a place amidst the multitude of grindcore.

note: 5/10

Tracklist

1. Back To The Past
2. Sinner
3. Milion Chwil
4. God's Commando
5. Puppet Show

Line-up

WOJTEK BUJOCZEK – vocals
ADAM ROGOWICZ – guitar
WOJTEK GAJDA – bass
MAREK LUDWICKI – guitar
MARCIN BRUNER – drums