{"id":103776,"date":"2024-08-16T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103776"},"modified":"2024-08-28T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T11:29:56","slug":"album-review-urdza-a-war-with-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-urdza-a-war-with-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"URDZA – A War With Myself (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

URDZA
A War With Myself<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s something decidedly funky about the opening title track on this debut full-length offering from Brazilian thrashers Urdza. Galloping straight from 1991, mainly due to the hip percussion of Dan Abreu and strutting axe work from Hugo do Prado and Rodrigo Adwent, \u2018A War With Myself\u2019 feels a little tepid and tinny, but once Heitor Prado\u2019s vocals establish themselves the S\u00e3o Paulo-based band takes on a more traditional metallic style.<\/p>\n

Even so, A War With Myself<\/em> is somewhat of a mixed bag that\u2019s never as robust as it promises. The percussion is all too tinny and the riffs lack weight as the combo struggles to make any sort of impact, although it\u2019s not as if they aren\u2019t trying. \u2018Wrath Of God\u2019 introduces itself by way of a slick riff, almost New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in style, it\u2019s just a shame there’s no punch or warmth to the production, but Urdza still manages to straddle the line between heavy metal and thrash.<\/p>\n

\u2018Damnation\u2019 is a good example of the band applying pace to the point of resulting in a crossover thrash haste, particularly in the snappy vocal delivery. However, \u2018Dawn Predator\u2019 manages to fuse a nifty power metal pace with something akin to Overkill, meaning that Urdza applies plenty of melody with whichever style they construct. Okay, so it\u2019s not exactly fierce heavy metal and again I point to the production which if punchier would have enabled the struttin\u2019 \u2018Sinner Or Liar\u2019 to have benefitted more. Even so, said track once again nods towards something initially funky circa the early 90s, as does \u2018Living In Fear\u2019 which is not a world away from Mordred.<\/p>\n

I have to say that as the album unravels the more enjoyable it gets, especially the performance from Dan Abreu. It\u2019s almost a crime that the instruments lack weight but hopefully, now the band has been made aware, it\u2019s something the Urdza and their team can correct. Considering I expected this to be a generic war obsessed traditional metal outing, A War With Myself<\/em>, in spite of its flaws, isn\u2019t bad at all.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

URDZAA War With Myself Self-released (2024)Rating: 7\/10 There\u2019s something decidedly funky about the opening title track on this debut full-length offering from Brazilian thrashers Urdza. Galloping straight from 1991, mainly due to the hip percussion of Dan Abreu and strutting axe work from Hugo do Prado and Rodrigo Adwent, \u2018A War With Myself\u2019 feels a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5765],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-urdza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103792,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103776\/revisions\/103792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}