Forget slow burns. Red Skies Dawning’s Rise From Ashes EP grabs you right by the throat from the moment that intro track hits, and frankly, they never loosen their grip. The guitars do sound granite solid and together with the rhythm section do create a killer soundscape. You can hear from the start, it is the string layer that takes on the melodic lifting, leaving the guitars free to just sound immense and dense.
The vocals, mostly clean, are heavily filters during the verses, delivering this cool, detached vibe, but when the choruses hit they’re right there, loud and straight in your face. And in parts added growls add that serious grit and intensity. What makes the choruses land hard is how deceptively simple the chord progressions are. They have this engaging, commercially accessible hook, yet the band never compromises the inherent heaviness. Structurally, they follow the alt-metal playbook: soft verses leading to high-impact, energetic choruses while they consciously skip the traditional guitar solos, which, honestly, works perfectly, keeping the focus tight on tension and impact rather than showmanship.
Hold onto your hats for the cover: their heavy take of Simple Minds’ classic, “Don’t You (Forget About Me), a cover that feels like it definitely belongs in the EP. If you haven’t pressed play yet, I guess you can already smell the air: Imagine a dark, sweaty, not well lit club. The crowd is as close as it gets to the tiny stage, and the whole thing is screaming for one moshpit after another. And yeah, you might feel temporarily paralyzed by the end. Don’t worry. This was part of the plan from the start.
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