KINETIC - Corrosion

\r\nKinetic is a Greek extreme metal band that came to life when vocalist Savvas Betinis (previously known as the frontman of the now defunct Death/Thrash/Progressive Metal band Acid Death), Brainfade’s guitarists Manolis Mamas and Stavros Bonikos and Kostas Alexakis, drummer of the cult Heavy/Power Metal band Wisdom, decided to join forces in 2002 retaining their musical uneasiness through the death/thrash/progressive sound. After a demo that received many positive reviews and their first full length album in 2004, entitled "The Chains That Bind Us", Kinetic in 2007 come forth with their second effort with a new record label and two additions in the lineup, Vaggelis Kakarougas on keyboards and Margarita Staikou handling the female vocals something that has given a different form and image to the band and the opportunity to explore new musical steps. In terms of the compositions the new album does not have big differences from its predecessor. The band still possesses in combination elements from two different schools of extreme metal with brutal vocals accompanied by heavy, power and death musical elements and their lead parts more reminiscent of the Swedish mental attitude while the rhythmic parts lean mostly toward the raspy sound of the American scene. Generally their influences come from bands like Sadus, Coroner, Arch Enemy and Death. Of course this time around their sound reveals a little bit more dark and evil outcome than their previous work. Technically, the guitar scales are well established and the rhythm section is beautiful while the drum parts uncover a resourceful playing and an interesting technique producing relentless outbreaks filled with double bass and blasts and from the other hand an impressive percussion fortified by excellent groove. The keyboards in advance create a haunting atmosphere with some prog melodies added yet there are times when they seem rather overdosed and somehow rundown. The lead death metal vocals are aggressive and totally convincing yet the new female vocalist of the band sounds indecisive and often disconnected and she surely needs to work even more for a better and more confident result. The bottom line is that their new work is gone a few notches down from their previous album but I guess the expansion of their lineup and the new elements in their sound surely give them the credit of acquiring some extra time in order the band to be more tight, solid and capable of displaying great things in the future. \r\n

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\r\nVaso "Necromass" Prassa \r\n

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