Matavenados, Matavenados
Matavenados self-titled EP flows five instrumental tracks together to carry you down a river of beauty, pain, and fear full of carnival rides and ruthless waves. Hailing from Hermosillo, Sonora, the Mexican quartet creates a musical palette of sounds that range from melodic metal, funk, latin, and even circus breaks. The first track, _________, fuses interchanging happy guitar melodies that eventually evolve into a slow moving doom metal wall of sound. Cesar Romero, the second track, juxtaposes itself well against the intro song by introducing a circus rhythm that builds into a very loud collection clowns on fire dancing in a lion’s mouth, but this is only the beginning. Half way through Cesar Romero, the clowns are no longer dancing but are slowly being swallowed by the lion as the song slows to a beautiful solemn waltz of mastication and digestion. On Callate Los Ojos, Matavenados sails you down a fog and chilly river surrounded by a forest full of strange new creatures and rapid but calm currents. Asustame Panteon picks up the pace of the EP through very well orchestrated melodic metal. The song could be described as a midnight haunted hayride through a orange-lit graveyard on Day Of The Dead. The final piece, Furby, starts by mixing clave rhythms with an melodic interplay between the guitars. The song finishes the musical boat ride down to its epic waterfall cliffhanger leaving you wanting fall into the rocks and waves, and you do, slowly floating away as you catch your saving breath. Matavenados secures the band to fall in line with other progressive rock geniuses through its excellently executed complex rhythms, solos, and melodic movements. Be sure to check them out and look for their future releases. Matavenados is a band that you will want to say: “I heard them first.”
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