First off: yes. Second off: fuck yeah! As a debut album from a relatively unknown band, Eyes of Mara made me shit my pants several times over. This album is an amazingly well done combination of death and thrash metal (seems to be happening a lot recently). The vocalist, Tyler Trainer, said this about their debut:  “With this record, we took a step back and really looked at the music we enjoy listening to and playing. We’ve all moved forward musically and wanted to bring all of our influences together to make something we thought was more true to us.” I really like that. That shows that Eyes of Mara actually goes back to their roots and reasons for why they love metal and who made them love it. A lot of popular bands did that to start off their careers and that helped all of them out great and I’ve no doubt that Eyes of Mara can do the exact same.

As Trainer said, they went back and took the best aspects from bands that they fell in love with and made it their own in a glorious fusion. The vocals have a very fast pace and great tone and sound that has that awesome death metal voice that man people recognize at a moments notice and know for a fact that some heavy shit is gonna start playing. The guitars have that excellent hardcore sound while being as fast as they come which gives them an amazing, pulsating sound to them along with the drums that have amazing pace and beats that fit each song well no matter how vicious they are.

Eyes of Mara do no release their debut until October 28th, but you can listen to the single from this album titled “Pain and Fear” on YouTube! I highly suggest you listen to it because if you’re open to all sorts of metal then you’re going to love this song and not to mention the full album when it releases.

 

LISTEN to “Pain and Fear” : http://tinyurl.com/lc98fy8

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