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Marionette: Enemies Melodic Death Metal Listenable Records October 5th, 2009
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Review
Enemies is the second full length release from Marionette, a Melodic Death Metal act that has found a home at Listenable Records. The band's debut album, Spite, has met with mixed reviews all over the internet ranging between bland riffs and all around intense material. This time around, the material feels a lot heavier compared to their debut, but what does the album hold overall? The music definitely stepped up a bit from the previous effort, especially with the guitars. The intense and fast paced riffs give the album a very heavy feeling right from the start, but that's just about where the album caps. Some of the songs on here are phenomenal, like "Silver Spoon" with it's catchy melodic guitar hooks, as well as the infectiously intense Progressive sounding "Through Veils". But the one thing that stands out on the album, and winds up working with or against the flow of the music, would be the very Progressive, almost Dream Theater-esque keyboards utilized during the song itself. But, then you have the same kind of keyboards that appeared in "Silver Spoon" on the track "The Lie", which work so well with the track that it adds this whole other element to the music for you to enjoy. The only problem with Enemies is the very rocky start. "The Swine" is a pretty impressive track, but it doesn't really bring anything that new or impressive to the table. It's not until you start to get further into the release, around the time of "Hatelust", that the album really picks up and gets addicting, with the exception of the track "Silver Spoon" as mentioned above. It's also the time that the vocalist starts to be a little more flexable vocally, whether by his own account by altering the tone in which he screams, the singing that appears once in a while like on "Through Veils" during the chorus, or some sort of digital alteration through distortion or messing with the volume controls during recording. On this release, the band really shows off their true potential, and the keyboards really wind up driving this one home. It's a great album, even if some of the songs on here are a little forgottable. Enemies is something that is worth checking out, and winds up putting Marionette on the list of bands you should definitely watch for good things to come from in the near future. Until then, much like it's precessor, Enemies will be one of those release you're going to have mixed feelings about. It's full of great ideas and executed perfectly musically, it's just that there is only this slight slant of difference in the music that needs to be focused on in order for the band to really shine through all the other acts out there.
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