REVIEW : Shadow Puncher - Shadow Puncher EP
While this is being described by the label as “Norwegian death metal”, honestly that is a bit misleading. To my ears, what we have here is a hybrid form of extreme metal. For instance, you have some down-tuned nu metal rhythms, but they’re heavier than most. The drum machine lends itself to an almost industrial-meets-groove-metal feel. Think somewhere between Lucid and Malformed Earthborn, but lighter on the glitches and samples. Genre-wise this is either really heavy nu-metal or generically “extreme metal.”
The first song (if we don’t include the spoken opening track) has a really annoying “bree bree bree” section that I really hope is a poor attempt at humor, as it really seems to serve no other purpose. … Continued →