Friday, March 13, 2015

Band Review: Continent


Continent is a Downtempo/Deathcore band from Niagara Falls, Ontario.

The music is aggressive, with the lyrics delivered in growling shouts, guitars and drums pounding inexorably in the background.

The greatest weakness of the band is a tendency for there to not be a lot of differentiation between the tracks, a frequent stumbling block for "core" bands.

At the same time, when you do hear something different, there is often a kind of sci-fi vibe to it, which surprised me. That may have been most evident on the title track, "Wasteland", which also seems to have some industrial roots. "Decaying Days" has some interesting bridge work, and "Fake" had a strong intro.

Currently I have only heard the 5-track Wasteland EP. The band does not have their own video channel yet, but a sound-only video has been posted by the label, We Are Triumphant (also home to GutterLIFE).

More information should be available as the band progresses, but all the links I could find are listed below.






*Technical difficulties kept me for posting yesterday, so I will post the review that should have gone up yesterday tomorrow.

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