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<\/a><\/p>\nMore than a month ag,o I received a promo of this Dutch band in the mail. The album was already released so I put it beside to review others first. Last week, I found it again, started to listen to it and came to the conclusion that the band deserves to be reviewed. The label Painted Bass Records is also a new label and I think they deserve the support as well as starting a label in this download era isn’t easy.<\/p>\n
The main man in this band is vocalist Koert Van Zon and he wrote the material together with Daan Janzing (guitar), Sebas Honig and Don Dietvorst. Strange, however, is that the last two are no members of the band.\u00a0Besides Koert and Daan, the band is completed by Martijn Balsters (guitar), Jason Duykers (bass) and Tim Verheijden on drums. The music is a mix of melodic heavy metal and Bay Area thrash. In the eighties, we probably would have called it\u00a0speed metal with thrash influences. The band sounds a bit like a more melodic version of Forbidden, \u00a0the\u00a0songs sound just a little less heavy\u00a0(read thrashy).<\/p>\n
Koert’s voice\u00a0also has some similarities with the Forbidden vocalist, but that could be just a coincidence. “Stranger” is a track where the jumpy riffs and style sound the most like\u00a0Forbidden. After that, the up-tempo track\u00a0“Pain”\u00a0 follows with a kind of high speed Iron Maiden sound with\u00a0thrash riffs – it is one of\u00a0my favorite tracks. Most of the songs are very catchy and make you jump up and down. It isn’t\u00a0easy to just listen to “Wrong Place Wrong Time”\u00a0without moving.\u00a0“Still Fucking Mad” is the heaviest and one of the\u00a0fastest tracks, pure Bay Area thrash – no more no less. After that, the tempo even increases in “Open Your Eyes” and “Fearless”.\u00a0A nice ending of this record.<\/p>\n
The only\u00a0slight negative point about this album is the lack of originality.\u00a0If they tried to put in just a little more new riffs instead\u00a0of reproducing some fine old thrash riffs, Unchained Reality would really nail it.<\/p>\n
Tracklist:<\/h4>\n
01. Better Off
\n02. Computerized Humanity
\n03. In My Way
\n04. You Will Always Be Alive
\n05. Stranger
\n06. Pain
\n07. Legalize
\n08. Wrong Place Wrong Time
\n09. Still Fucking Mad
\n10. Open Your Eyes
\n11. Fearless<\/p>\n
Playing time:<\/strong> 37:00<\/p>\n Release date:<\/strong> September 2015<\/p>\n Label:<\/strong> Painted Bass Records<\/p>\n Website:<\/strong> www.unchainedreality.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"