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Album reviews:
Here you'll find all album reviews sorted on publish date, descending. Latest published items are on top.
Note: We don't give a mark to: MCDs, DEMOs, Compilations and Live albums.
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 | 01. One of us
02. Killer by the road
03. Bend
04. Glow
05. Waiting for the gun
06. Wet trails
07. Bring out your dead
08. 13 minutes of agony
09. Unstable / Unreal
|  | Plutonium Orange is this melodic stoner metal band from metal overpopulated Finland. P.O. is already around for some 10 years and after 4 demos recorded from 2000-2005, they took their chance in 2009 with Firebox Records. This debut album is the result of the recording and mixing at Studio Watercastle by Sami Kokko. The orange album cover with a speaker on front looks a bit retro and I like this kind of artwork. It literally covers the surprise that’s inside.
The term melodic stoner metal isn’t clear to me right away however, certainly not after the powerful opening song with ditto uncompromised guitar solo. Only during other songs Wet Trails and Waiting for the gun perhaps. The repetitive stoner riffs are present there, but the varied songwriting by Juha Raivio (guitar, backing vocals) and Samuli Liekkinen (lead guitar, vocals) lift the album above stoner boredom. The progressive mix exists out of rock, metal, emo metal but always accompanied by a metal guitar wall. The solos are good and the band plays very tight.
Melodic hardcore / emo core songs like Killer by the road that is into the melodic hardcore direction of a band like Ignite, except for the spacey guitar effects. Other songs have similar hardcore influences and riffs, like Unstable / Unreal and passages of Bend.
The doomy pace of the guitars in Glow in combination with the emotional vocals by Samuli Liekkinen give it an extra tension. The different songs are blended without any problems and all the compositions are catchy, heavy and fresh. Highlight is the very divers 13 minutes of agony. Perhaps this band is smaller than it deserves to be and a bit more attention out of the Finnish borders would be in place! And that’s not always said about the flood of Finnish metal.
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