{"id":501,"date":"2011-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=501"},"modified":"2013-06-01T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:00:58","slug":"album-review-titans-eve-the-divine-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-titans-eve-the-divine-equal\/","title":{"rendered":"TITANS EVE – The Divine Equal (2010) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

TITANS EVE
The Divine Equal<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2010)<\/span>
Rating: 10\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s Titans Eve launch themselves into the metal heavens with The Divine Equal<\/em>. Written with Paradise Lost<\/em> and the biblical book of Genesis<\/em> in mind, The Divine Equal<\/em> is a giant slab of metal that makes me feel the same way I did when I first heard Metallica\u2019s Ride The Lightning<\/em> (1984) or Testament\u2019s Souls Of Black<\/em> (1990). The band have shared the stage with compatriots such as Exodus, Bonded By Blood, and Lazarus A.D. as well as Finntroll, Ensiferium, Moonsorrow, and fellow Canadians The Agonist. <\/p>\n

The speeding guitars and break-your-neck rhythm section of Titans Eve immediately get to work as \u2018Judgement\u2019 hits. As the album\u2019s first proper track, its job is to simply blow your face off and that it does. By the time the first chorus hits you\u2019ll be pumping your fist and wondering how in the hell you have never heard of this band before! The album\u2019s lead single, \u2018Becoming The Demon\u2019 is up next. It offers a little more groove and a fantastic vocal that isn\u2019t technically spectacular but fits the song perfectly, reminding me a lot of how James Hetfield\u2019s voice stood out on the first two Metallica albums. The rolling \u2018Tides Of Doom\u2019 follows much the same formula as \u2018Judgement\u2019, but midway through it breaks out into heavier territory. The angry march of \u2018Nightfall\u2019 and the punk-infused (think Wisdom In Chains and Sick Of It All) \u2018Searching For Nothing\u2019 are highlights here as well. It\u2019s the album\u2019s namesake that pushes everything one step further here though. <\/p>\n

\u2018The Divine Equal\u2019 is about as dynamic a song as I\u2019ve heard in a short three minutes and twenty one seconds. It grinds, it growls, it pumps, it unleashes, it pummels, and it absolutely inspires – all at the same time. The song very much encapsulates everything that came before it on the album, while also taking it up a notch. <\/p>\n

While not entirely a thrash metal album, this one will definitely make those with an ear for that style stand up and cheer. What immediately catches you about this album is simply how downright inspiring it sounds. This is a band with a lot of life in them, a lot of fire in their belly and you hear it in every single note on The Divine Equal<\/em>. I simply cannot get enough of this album because it reminds me of everything that is still good about metal music. This is the kind of band labels can\u2019t create or buy into; this is the real thing – pure and unadulterated. Fans of new bands like Evile and Lazarus AD will find a lot to love here as will old fogies like me that still cling to the early Metallica, Megadeth<\/a>, Testament, and Exodus records.<\/p>\n

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

TITANS EVEThe Divine Equal Self-released (2010)Rating: 10\/10 Canada\u2019s Titans Eve launch themselves into the metal heavens with The Divine Equal. Written with Paradise Lost and the biblical book of Genesis in mind, The Divine Equal is a giant slab of metal that makes me feel the same way I did when I first heard Metallica\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-titans-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11963,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/11963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}