Maudiir is back for a new EP.
Created by the canadian musician F. (all instruments/vocals, Trinity Blast), La Part du Diable follows an album in 2020.
Between Black/Thrash, some Prog influences and Death Metal accents, served on a dark Punk basis, the composer offers us five songs with this EP. We begin with the soft introduction from Fracture, which quickly leads us to this energetic and jerky rhythmic, then interesting saturated vocals. This Thrash/Punk’s anger melts to some darker harmonics, and the mixing is quite heady, just like The Slumber’s dissonance. The song is more airy, but keeps this part of aggressivity, while being somehow groovy. The break allows to go back to a mad rush full of leads before the final part. We feel a lot more Black Metal influences on The Fortunate Few, the next track, partly thanks to this fast-paced rhythmic the musician couples with a solid basis. Spirit of Sulfur wears heady harmonics, melting Heavy and Black with still liveliness rhythmic, which is sometimes heavy, sometimes sharp, then The Crowning Hour, the last song, catches us with its melodies. We feel some airy sonorities, some raw ones, but everything melts quite well.
Without limits, Maudiir goes wherever he wants to. La Part du DIable is a very variated EP that picks elements everywhere he needs while staying true to this Black/Thrash basis with Punk energy.
80/100