Music: Modern Metal
Website: https://myspace.com/hordofficial
Duration Time: 42:31 (10 songs)
Country: France
Hord is another band from the French label Send The Wood Music, which came to me to listen and review it. After a fruitful meeting with their label mates from Breed Machine, I thought that once again it will be positive music trip and I wasn't wrong. Hord start play in 2002, carrying out three full albums to this date. The latest one is “The Book Of Eliot,” which saw the light of day in this year. The French prefer the music of seemingly similar to their colleagues from Breed Machine, but they not only to focus on crushing the listener by the sound, creating a more complex variation of metal music.
Band plays their music, taking influences from many styles of music, contrasting heavy sound by the lots of interesting solutions and nuances arrangement. Groove metal parts are interspersed with moments of almost death metal strength, very powerful and brutal, a whole range of electronic samples of industrial flavor and two vocals, one is melodic, remembering of nu metal front-mans, and the other is strong, positioned somewhere between growling and screaming of hard core type of singing. The sound of the album is very well balanced, the guitar has a cool industrial and mechanical smartness, section produces the maximum dose of pulsating deep funk vibrations, samples are interesting and well integrated into the whole of music. I suppose that musicians and a producer had to put a lot of job time into this album, because everything from sound samples to variety of guitar licks and vocals is damn solid and plastically quite refined. “The Book Of Eliot ” is a concept album, the songs create a very colorful journey, leading the listener into the centre of emotional passages, where the beauty contrasts with the pain, sadness, melancholy and sonic anger. Hord play music, in my opinion of course, somewhere in between industrial metal acts such as for example: Fear Factory, metalcore style of Killswitch Engage with nu metal – progressive inclinations.
“The Book Of Eliot” is a really interesting album, which contains lots of melodies, heaviness, aggression and even catchy moments. Hord is a professional band, they can create surprising music, full of colors and contrasts, so fans of unconventional contemporary modern metal should be like this album. Solid eight.
note: 8/10
Tracklist
1. Analepsis
2. Confession
3. At the Gate
4. The Sleepless Journey
5. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
6. The Unwaverings
7. On Collision Course
8. Unleash the Hermod
9. Kindermord
10. What the Thunder Said
Line-up
Jonathan Devaux – Guitar, Vocal
Hadrien Tourrenc Sample, Machines, Vocal
Moerty Fooley – Guitar
Vincent Barnavol – Drums
Kristen Schwartz – Bass
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