Salt The Wound
Salt The Wound, from Cleveland, Ohio, have released their follow up to 2008′s Carnal Repercussions, with Ares. They have stayed true to the path of delivering melodic deathcore chalked full of formulated break downs, high pitched vocal squawks, and monotonous guitar riffs. Unfortunately, Ares is sub par to their debut.
Only a couple things have changed, as far as their sound is concerned, and they both revolve around the vocals. Salt The Wound, just as Job For A Cowboy, has taken the axe to the “pig squealing” and have put an interesting twist to the high pitch screams which is most noticeable on “From My Hands.”
Most of this album dwells in mediocrity. Every track sounds the same. Ares drags at the same moderate pace the entire album. I feel like I am listening to the same drum beat and guitar riff the entire time. “When People Are Shameless” is the only track containing an original sounding guitar part which is only presented in the first quarter of the song. There is really not much to say about Ares other than its simply, O.K. If you never hear this album, you wont be missing much. And do we really need another album themed around the god damn Romans?
Artist: Salt the Wound
Album: Ares
Genre: Deathcore
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/saltthewound
-Tracklist-
1. Mutations
2. From My Hands
3. Foot of the Thrown
4. An Era of Revolution
5. When People are Shameless
6. Jafar
7. Hail the Locusts
8. Take a Bow