Country: Germany
Genre: Deathcore
Band website: www.myspace.com/sleeveband
Highlights: Champagne! This is an air crash
Such a short EP, yet so compact. Strangely, I would never link our western neighbours with deathcore, maybe more with characteristic metalcore in which there is more melody than than in Swedish death metal bands but whatever. Sleeve contacted me recently, so now Im typing down this review. Of course I did not know them before and I hope that this new friendship will not end on this EP only. Although… hm… we will see how it all will work out.
A mindless youth is a thoroughly different material. Dense blasts, two! crazy vocal tracks, scores of riffs, huge but skilfully dosed amount of melodies, massive breakdowns, it may have been played like this billions of times already but it can be still that there is still demand for such way of thrashing. Well, in Poland this trend just tends to begin to exist (although there are bands really worth mentioning, what you probably know from my previous articles), so Sleeve along with other similar bands stay will stay unnoticed at least in our country. What is interesting, Sleeve members surprise not only with their extravagant and a bit faggy image but also with irregularity of their music in a similar way that is characteristic for THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN for example…
Thats it. Unfortunately, what is not doing any good for this record is a too great diversity in motives, in spate of sounds. I would personally prefer them to stick to few really important ones than to attack with such a big load of sounds which do not even suit one another correctly. They even set me aside, and such concentrated and bit archaic (and the best part is that it is so damn technical) sonic attack would probably daunt a typical listener. Thats why Sleeve and other bands of this kind aim to particular audience which is in the swim. I will conceal the case of lyrics, which are mostly about nothing and are so stupid that it is hard to listen to them. Alright, but even in metalcore/deathcore even if there is no precised message I would rather listen to lyrics for the 100th time about love or ones inner problems than about crap like there is a plane crash. In addition, one singer sings in more inarticulate way than the second one does. By the way one singer would be enough…
Well, it is not really bad, Im hoping that their debut album would be better, because it would be more ordered, better, because it will be less twisted and still brutal and unconventional. Time will tell. For now it is six, ok, seven. There is a progress, but it is still only an EP and additionally it is made only for fans of such sounds. Hopefully next time it will get much better.
note: 7/10
Tracklist
Champagne! This is an air crash
Roswell overdose
Lap dance millionaire
Line-up
dude – vocals
martin – vocals
stefan – bass
texasboy – drums
gay bird – guitar
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