Bloody Falls - Burn the Witch (2021)^{Release ID: 36945}

Bloody Falls are a sort of groove metal / melodic death metal hybrid and therefore occupy a threshold in my music listening that I do not often visit. Not being melodic death metal's biggest fan and only slowly starting to stretch my legs beyond Machine Head in terms of groove metal made Burn the Witch a tricky offering. Having stumbled across the (fittingly) groovy Soul Ripper on a Spotify playlist I took the plunge on the whole album to frankly a spectrum of experience ranging from “Oh my Fucking God, make it stop!” to “Ok then, what’s up next?”.

The main issue with Burn the Witch is that everything sounds very similar from track to track (a common issue I have with melo-death) and suffers from some immature song writing capabilities. These issues are further confounded by the addition of Salla Flinkman on guest vocals on three tracks. I am unaware of her day job, but I am willing to guess that it is not metal music related. Her vocal capabilities are limited to say the least and are in places laughable to hear.

Musically, the album shows some promise for the band with a decent selection of lead work present and at times some solid riff selections to go at. They can play but are not yet accomplished enough at what they can write to make a consistent tracklisting. Whilst there are some moments of interest, I would not think that Burn the Witch will be getting much air time from me moving forwards beyond an initial couple of listens.