{"id":6590,"date":"2012-04-24T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2013-06-01T14:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:15:40","slug":"album-review-odium-burning-the-bridges-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-odium-burning-the-bridges-to-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"ODIUM – Burning The Bridges To Nowhere (2012) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ODIUM
Burning The Bridges To Nowhere<\/strong><\/span>
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\nYear Of The Sun (2012)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Every time I start to believe that the metalcore \u201cfad\u201d is dead (killed by shopping malls worldwide nonetheless), a band rears their ugly head that is good enough to make me believe again. This year, it\u2019s Odium\u2019s Burning The Bridges To Nowhere<\/em> that reminds me that metalcore still has something to offer fans of great music.<\/p>\n

Produced by Greg Dawson (Moneen, The End Choke), the album is a beast that roars anthem after anthem mixing traditional metal guitar solos, Gothenburg tones, and the grunting \/ singing combination that made us all take notice of the genre a decade or so ago. <\/p>\n

What Canada\u2019s Odium are best at here are exploding. Each song comes off as very controlled and then when the intensity reaches the boiling point, the band just tear away and let the vocals and guitars soar in a really melodic way. \u2018Viral By Nature\u2019 is a good example of this. During the verses it\u2019s one of the heaviest songs on the record and when the chorus hits it sounds completely inspired like they might be the vocalist\u2019s last words to those he loves.<\/p>\n

\u2018No Way Out\u2019 has a slightly thrashier feel, utilizing a rough vocal and more buzzsaw-like guitars, that provide a nice break from the lot of grunting that abounds here. It\u2019s a little like what Exodus, Hypocrisy and Killswitch Engage might sound like if they got all muddled up. \u2018Blue Channel\u2019 reverses the formula here, relying more on the melodic guitars and singing and less on the more aggressive parts. It provides a point to really latch onto early on in the album and I really dig that about it. The vocals have an almost post-hardcore thing going on that brings to mind Boysetsfire\u2019s later records.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the coin, the title track opens the album with a by-the-numbers metalcore tune complete with rolling guitars, grunty breakdowns, explosive choruses, and insanely destructive drumming. While it\u2019s unquestionably stereotypical, it\u2019s also extremely good and quickly became one of my favourite tracks. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to say that Odium offer something here that we haven\u2019t heard before. That said though, if you are a fan of the genre then you will certainly get your blood excited when you hear this. They have a great spark, like years ago when you first heard bands like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Bleeding Through, All That Remains, and their many, many ilk. <\/p>\n

Odium definitely have a boat load of talent and I think that as time goes on and they experiment a little more, they have the potential to offer something really new. For now, I\u2019ll settle for something really exciting. Thanks to these guys, we can all remember why we took notice of metalcore in the first place!<\/p>\n

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

ODIUMBurning The Bridges To Nowhere Year Of The Sun (2012)Rating: 7\/10 Every time I start to believe that the metalcore \u201cfad\u201d is dead (killed by shopping malls worldwide nonetheless), a band rears their ugly head that is good enough to make me believe again. This year, it\u2019s Odium\u2019s Burning The Bridges To Nowhere that reminds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-odium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590","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=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11999,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions\/11999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}