Album Review: Salem's Childe - The Sin that saves you (2020)
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Salem's Childe - The Sin that saves you
Release: October 09, 2020
Label: Pavement Music
Format: Digital
Length: 47:14
Genre: Thrash Metal / Groove Metal
Origin: Kokomo (Indiana), USA
"The Sin that saves you" is the first full-length release by Indiana's Groove and Thrash Metal quintet Salem's Childe. Four years ago the band gatecrashed the Metal universe with their EP "Paradise Lost". Now the first album can be purchased via Pavement Music.
Salem's Childe are:
Scott Earley - drums,
James Gates - bass,
Aaron Crick - guitar,
Rob Salem - guitar, and
Johnny Oravsky - vocals.
On a dozen tracks Salem's Childe play their grooving, modern and intense style of Thrash Metal. It appears as if the band has received a lot of influence from the early 90s. On the one hand there is a strong impact of the modern version of Thrash Metal such as Machine Head or Black Album-Metallica. But on the other hand, Salem's Childe let the sweet gloomy atmosphere of 90s Alternative Metal flow into their music. The song 'In Scarlet' might be the best example for this. A melodic but rough groove minces its way forward and leads into thrashing attacks.
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An interesting feature of the album is its consistency or its musical coherence. The transitions from one song to the other are super smooth and make the twelve-track release appear like one big contiguous work. And this could be awesome. But I miss inner versatility here that makes the coherence more interesting. Am I making sense here? If there was a bit more variety in the songwriting, each song could stand out more. And then the smooth transistions would make an even better impression.
Nevertheless, it is not a bad release. My two favourite tracks on "The Sin that saves you" are 'The Veil' and 'In Scarlet'. The ideas of Salem's Childe are really good. I think that songwriting and performance are not fully developed yet. But the potential to create good Metal is definitely given.
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