The Haunted
One Kill Wonder (Earache)
by Martin Popoff
For a fleeting minute there I was a little ticked off that the best songs on this album were the two instrumentals (“Demon Eyes” should be some radio show’s theme song). But then quickly, the record leapt to life, One Kill Wonder sonically frying my system with its perfect drum sound, Marco’s purely thrashy vocal attack, its groove at these unsafe speeds. The sound is rougher, more crackly and live than that of Made Me Do It, snapping this band back to a purity perhaps wistfully pined-for amongst things like The Crown or Carnal Forge or old Soilwork.
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