Country: France
Genre: Deathcore
Band website: http://www.myspace.com/juggernauthardcore
Highlights: Antinomos, Eventless Terror
Album lenght: 46:13
French deathcore? Well, why not? Some time ago I did a review of DECADES OF DESPAIR material, which, as at least some of you know is at least decent, but still melodic like for ex. The Black Dahlia Murder. Today, still hungover a bit, I do JUGGERNAUT material (funny thing is that around ten other bands share the same name, along them is one legendary one founded by Bobby Jarzombek). Coming back to Frenchmen, they prefer technical, brutal and ass-kicking way of playing which has little in common with catchy and pleasant metalcore. JUGGERNAUT is a typical deathcore band which main aim is only to kill.
As it is typical with this kind of band, Frenchmen are proficient with great technique (that is already a regularity, deathcore = technique), plus there is a great amount of satan in their songs. But what is more interesting, on Architects of Deceit there is no run of the mill and nonsense thrashing which main goal is only to force breakdowns. That is what brings them closer to brutal death metal than to deathcore, but for now those two genres are sometimes similar to each other so they stay in the same place, hehe. Ok now maybe a little more about music itself.
Members of the band daringly admit that their main inspirations are SUFFOCATION and ANIMOSITY and honestly their case is one in which what band members say is actually really heard in their music. Brutality is served in punk sauce and there can even be heard echoes of NAPALM DEATH or NASUM which in their way of expression sometimes terrify modern metalheads, hehe. The only thing that is actually missing for me is… diversity of songs. I know that this is a secluded and highly spent genre, but a bit of creativity (melodies, maybe slower tempo or something) would surely make this album more diversified. But to my misery that did not happen, and this album gets boring somewhere around middle of it.
Advantages? Vocalist whose pitch of voice suits this kind of music really well. Strong, distinct scream, great low almost concrete growls grind up. It gets a little worser in higher tones, but for my delightment the guy is not going deeper into them, so he knows in what he is strong and in what he is not. Next I would like to give my appraisal to the drummer who does not blast like crazy (but blasts are in the majority anyway) and can surprise listener with interesting passage or broken, resembling Fear Factory a little, rhythm. And that would be all for now.
Let it be, seven.
note: 7/10
Tracklist
1. Crumbling Foundations
2. Antinomos
3. Casual Monstrosity
4. Eventless Terror
5. Unveiled Cross
6. Endless Circle
7. Tongues Of Asphalt
8. Artifact
9. Delusions Of Grader
10. Our Cynism Is All We Have Left
11. Unsettled Scores/The World Awaiting Oblivion
Line-up
Jérôme – Vocals
Guillaume – Guitar
Jérémy – Guitar
Karol – Drums
Laurent – Bass
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