Daath The Concealers
‘The Concealers’ will undoubtedly blow your head off.If there are any doubters left that pondered the longevity of after the departure of vocalist Sean Farber, or the band’s motivation to better themselves after the buzz surrounding their debut, there will surely be no detractors left after the Georgian quintet’s mammoth second effort has trampled them into extinction.‘The Hinderers’ stood out for its groove, not common place amongst the genre, and ‘The Concealers’ follows this template further. Opener ‘Sharpen The Blades’, ‘Self Destruction Manifest’, ‘Silenced’, and ‘Of Poisoned Sorrows’ amongst others exhibit this groove-driven style with aplomb and bring flashes of Dimebag Darrell to mind, not to mention his vocal partner in crime, of which ’s new talisman frontman is rather reminiscent. Indeed, the awesome Sean Z leads the line with a far more focused aggression, providing a far better balance than his predecessor, his lyrical epithets and subject matter proving a perfect boon for the music, ramming home the angst in a hammer-fist style. This is a stirring sophomore by any measure and a clear step up from ‘The Hinderers’ in both composition and application, so despite which way you were leaning before you hit play, ‘The Concealers’ will undoubtedly blow your head off regardless.
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Daath’s ‘07 record, The Hinderers, was apparently supposed to revolutionize metal as we know it (or something) but that hyperbole was, of course, all hype: I caught the band live on that tour and felt mostly apathetic about the group’s sound, as did those who partook with me. Enter latest Daath effort The Concealers, and everything has changed for the collective and its now impressively coherent sound: from the opening strains of the killer ‘Sharpen The Blades’, The Concealers is a record that mines death-thrash and mines it well, Daath unafraid to write a stark, fast riff or high-flying solos, much to the group’s newfound advantage.
Staying decisive the entire record through, Daath smashes and dashes with these highly listenable songs and you’ve got a good five tracks that are going to go over really well in concert contained herein. Though hardly the avant-garde force some would have had us believe, Daath has no doubt played a surprisingly strong game this time around.