The Salvific Convention
After two years since the first debut
Ep has been thrown to the underground, Savior strikes back and tries
to save some souls with its visions of metal. For starters, it's a
good piece of news that beside digital versions, there's a physical
format released simultaneously, given in a rather modest form with
lyrics, wrong track order and grim band's photography. Yep, that's
right, joke is over now, as Savior simply got matured in every aspect
as compared to the previous „Panów pan”. First of all, still
keeping sound realization in the underground frames, they got it more
organic, maybe at the cost of first Ep rawness a bit, yet the result
is pretty satisfying, especially when it comes to drums. Secondly,
the first words alert it won't be a nice excursion. That's true, two
years of rehearsals, gigs and countless drops of sweat should be a
drayhorse to reach any progress and the opening song called „Ty”
confirms this natural way of development. And if „Ciemne ludy”
had some broken rhythms, here I have a real feast of tunes in the
vein of Artillery, being fantastic mix of „Cybermind” and
„Khomaniac”: catchy riffs, not easy for headbanging arythmic
driven paces, gentle guitar passage in the middle and agonizing
Jordan's vocals. One shot, one kill and one wonder at the same
time... Only two and a half minutes run extremely fast, leaving me
with an 'I want fuckin' more such a mutilation, guys' impression...
The Ep contains of three songs clocking
in twelve minutes, and it's a clever measure. Each track has
something different to offer and so is the next „Obywatel”.
Preceded by horror-movie introduction... wait, wait, no, I need to
hold my horses, too much goregrind stuff lately. All right, once
again: preceded by short talk about the main colours in Polish
society, it becomes a song with less thrashing vibes and more clean
Jordan vocals, based on fast memorable theme, with changing tempo and
furious lead. But the best is yet to come. I mean, the closing and
the longest one is a kind of twist ending for sure, being an obvious
evidence the band doesn't want to be a slave of any limits or
constraints. Despite Vektorish-like portions of riffs, Savior tries
to sneak out the thrashing formula, providing both calmer acoustic
sounds with melodic chanting and all-consuming drum cannonades that
hook death metal domain. And in contrast to this controlled sonic
speedy disruption, the second part seems to be a couch potato: very,
very slow pace dominates and when it doesn't want to go fast, Jordan
changes his voice to more guttural. Yes, these slowdowns in the vein
of Dying Fetus or Ingested really smash all the organs without any
mercy! That is completely unexpected, yet it sounds absolutely
perfect to me. Believe me, I listened to many thrash slabs for years
and such a method of sonic execution is given for the first time in
the genre, I guess. What's more, „Nam B(Jaro)sław” has a chorus
no one can miss. Simply, a highlight!
In a deep sorrow I must avow I missed
their last gig this June during the next editon of „The Massacre of
the Innocents”, as my son didn't share my enthusiasm and preferred
to slaughter me during FIFA 19 game to listen to any metal noise. You
know, priorities. Anyway, it's not a challenging task to summarize
„Podział”. I am very pleased with the final effort, even if the
short adjective aspires to be one of the most important word
on the board. Well, as mentioned above, there is a progress, vision
and off the chain youth. The holy trinity that will lead them to a
full-length, I hope. I'd like to write all the doors are open for
them... but unfortunately I have to quote Tadeusz Sznuk 'not exactly'
right now, as due to the whole lyrical content, Savior won't be
invited on PiS convention, however I've got a strange feeling the
band will handle the issue.
80/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(written in June, 2019, in searing heat)
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