Band: Mutiny
Within
Album:
Synchronicity
Year: 2013
Country: USA
Genre:
Melodic Death Metal
While I
personally enjoyed Mutiny Within’s self titled first album apparently they
didn’t sell very well and broke up. Now a few years later they reformed for a
second go around with Synchronicity. The band is still playing its
semi-technical/progressive melodic death metal and if you enjoyed their first
release then you are going to be very pleased here.
The vocals
Chris Clancy put out on Synchronicity are just as powerful as they were on the
S/T. The guy has just got a great singing voice very akin to what you might
normally hear in a power metal band. Yet at the same time he also has a decent
growl as well. The growling ranges from high pitched to a more common “normal”
type of growl. Clancy’s singing though is really where he shines.
If you are
familiar with the band’s last album then you won’t be surprised that this one
is chock full of melodic riffing. The majority of the riffs are uplifting and
while any normal person would think they were really quite heavy those who are
accustomed to listening to metal would probably say it’s a little weak. And
they wouldn’t be wrong, though I highly doubt being heavy or aggressive is
anywhere in the band’s mission statement.
Still there are moments in Machine and the bridge of In My Veins where
the band noticeably cranks things up.
I really
enjoy the drumming of Bill Fore as its more technical and energetic than that
of many drummers in the genre they play in. Yet the drumming isnt overly
technical and doesn’t become pretentious wankery. And Fore seems to know very
well when its appropriate to go full blast and when to slow down. Now apparently Andrew Jacobs played bass on
this album but I didn’t hear it at all. Chock it up to the usual mixing of the
bass out of the music and not enough breathing room between the guitars and
bass to make it audible.
When it
comes down to it Synchronicity is very much the predecessor to Mutiny Within
and it wouldn’t be wrong to say this is like the second part of that album.
Here we have heaps of melody, a great vocalist, riffs, and superb
drumming. And for me it’s Embers, In My
Veins, and Falls to Pieces that really blew me away though there isn’t a filler
track on the album.
Score: 9/10
Standout
Tracks: Embers, In My Veins, Falls to Pieces
