A Killer's Confession - The Indifference Of Good Men
EXCLUSIVE REVIEW | A KILLER’S CONFESSION TURN IT LOOSE ON ‘THE INDIFFERENCE OF GOOD MEN’
Cleveland’s alt-metal group A Killer’s Confession, fronted by Waylon Reavis, will release their new album, The Indifference Of Good Men, on October 18, on the Wake Up! Music label.
A Killer's Confession
Mark the date on your calendar because you don’t want to miss this one! It’s a relentless sonic endeavor, supercharged and lethally superb.
Formed in 2016, not long after Reavis left Mushroomhead, A Killer’s Confession (AKC) comprises Waylon Reavis (vocals), Mark Alexander (guitar), Morgan Bauer (drums), and JP Cross (bass). Once the band’s line-up was set, they began laying down tracks for their debut album, Unbroken, released on the EMP label of Megadeths’ bassist, David Ellefson.
After releasing Unbroken, they divided their time between playing sold-out live shows and working on recording The Indifference Of Good Men. Meanwhile, their contract with EMP expired. While seeking a new label, AKC went indie, releasing “Angel On The Outside,” “I Wish,” and “Reanimated” via Spotify, accumulating more than 2 million streams.
During this intermezzo, a series of serendipitous events led to AKC autographing a contract with Wake Up! Music, founded and steered by MyMy Lady G, aka Pepper Gomez, who asserts, “I believe AKC is the new Linkin Park.”
Encompassing a baker’s dozen of tracks, the album begins with “It’s Not Too Late,” opening on surging, hypertrophic guitars flowing into a brawny alt-metal tune rife with rumbling resonance crowned by growling vocal harmonies and Reavis’s melodic tones, infusing the lyrics with dark energy and rasping timbres.
“Satisfied” pulsates with impenetrable fulminating momentum, like a monster riddled by pulverizing rage out of a cosmic Neronianism.
From a purely subjective viewpoint, highlights include “Numb,” with its actinic intro seguing into opaque hefty guitars swelling with wicked throbbing colors, as Reavis’ electrifying voice imbues the lyrics with edgy chaffing timbres.
“Trust Me” rides snarling, grinding guitar riffs reminiscent of Rob Zombie meets Korn, brimming with grimacing nu-metal push. “Cocaine” features stuttering, raging guitars supported by Thor-like percussion and a bassline from the center of the earth. Oscillating synths inject the tune with tight apprehensive hues, awash in blistering ozone-smelling fumes.
“The Shore” travels on bluesy prog-rock-laced surfaces, billowing with nightmarish pigments. As the harmonics ramp up, thick deluges of heavy guitars fill the tune with clotted tendons of rough sonic gouges, pervaded by cap-a-pie residual reverberations, booming with solidified intensity.
“Satisfied” pulsates with impenetrable fulminating momentum, like a monster riddled by pulverizing rage out of a cosmic Neronianism. This track is akin to Korn amped up on steroids and crystal meth. “Render” presents cavernous droning tones rife with doom-like dynamics traveling on undulating black textures, as if emanating from the shadows of the Empyrean, releasing viscous ferocity.
The last track, the “Numb Raw” demo delivers a visceral version of “Numb,” more severe and less melodic, and full of searing unprocessed coloration, while Reavis’ voice takes on a grating chill, biting, and so buff, it hurts.
The Indifference Of Good Men packs the sonic punch and frisson of tectonic plates fracturing and shifting, while simultaneously sending delicious sensations rippling through listeners’ diaphragms. Definitely one of the best albums of 2019.
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