Hailing from Alberta Canada Divinity have spent the best part of 2 years recording “Allegory” and it shows, polished production, razor sharp sound, honed songs! This could quite easily be one of the best modern metal albums of the year. This (initially) self-funded album was produced by Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Dark Tranquillity) shows a band that are truly ambitious and willing to go the extra mile in order to perfect their sound and performance.
Having shared the stage with the likes of Cannibal Corpse, Kataklysm and Overkill to name just a few Divinity have gotten their tech based modern metal down to a fine art. Opening track “Induce” is an intense slab of skin melting technical metal, a quiet into builds to a blindingly fast staccato blast beat then backs off to give the song some breathing space.
The Start of “Power Control” has a very old school Death metal feel to it then leads onto a very current feel. Whereas “Plasma” has a very Soilwork vibe to it! “Modern Prophecy” has a very cool mid pace stomp to it. “The Unending” is a fantastic example of where the band are heading, well thought out and really catchy with out sacrificing any technicality.
Throughout the entire album Divinity manage to keep a great sense of melody in all of their songs, whether that be vocalist Sean’s occasional clean vocals (thankfully not every song, they manage to not fall into the shouty verse clean chorus trap that many bands end up in) or the Swede-esk duelling guitar gymnastics.
If there is one bad thing I can say about this album is that I can’t put it on my ipod to listen to it all over the world. Nuclear Blast have seen it fit to break all of songs into fifty thousand tracks so I know that piracy is a real problem … but this is a pain in the arse!!
(Well at least it’s not voiceovers and obviously the ones in the shop won’t be - Pete)
Divinity are a band to really watch out for, youthful eagerness plus technical know how plus commitment = these guys are going to do big things! Sterling job boys!
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