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I’ll be honest, when I think of Canada, the only band that comes to mind is ‘GodSpeed You Black Emperor’, and no band has really impressed me from there since. But that all changes NOW. Let’s get about it! 

So, this is the latest full-length album by ‘SELIAS’, featuring 9 tracks with a 30-minute run time. From the opening track, I knew this would be an album I’d fuck with heavily! Why? Because it has some of my favourite qualities:

-It’s fast-paced

-Aggressive

-Technical

Combine those three, and you can’t go wrong! And this band understands the assignment well! This is like a sonic adrenaline pill; one shot of this per day, and you’ll be moving faster than you can say ‘Energy Drink crash’. 

This album features some of the most powerful guitar work I’ve heard in a while! The drums are fantastically in rhythm and sound infectious as fuck! The vocals: 90% death growls/screams and 10% clean is something not many bands do, but I fuck with it heavily.

It’s also the fact that the clean vocals are used so subtly in the background that it gives it this special flair that I can’t quite put my finger on why, but it gives it a ‘mystic’ to it like there’s a fantastical whisper to the songs, which is sick! 

I love how from track to track it can go from ‘Bludgeoning heavy’ to ‘Thrash Pace Fast’ and everything in between. They are skilled enough to change the various tempos (sometimes in the middle of the songs), and that gives this album that much more replay value to hear a band go back and forth between the different styles and execute both to a fucking tee!

Overall, although this is my first time hearing this band, you can guarantee it won’t be my last! 

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Vj4cqYKprkKRgxMO2XoaZ?si=ngSr3tCFQge2BXw3zuEstg