Despite its postponement, Landmvrks’ third album is coming!
Entitled Lost In A Wave, it will be released at Arising Empire and is the pride of Florent Salfati (vocals), Nicolas Exposito (guitar), Rudy Purkart (bass), Paul Cordebard (guitar) and Kévin D’Agostino (drums).
The album begins with Lost In A Wave, the eponymous track, connecting softness, intensity and a monstrous groove. The sound is massive, breaks are shaking, and the singer’s raging howlings are more than communicative, creating an impressive contrast with those federative choruses. Rainfall is next, and we only need a few seconds to understand that the song is shaped for live shows and to make the crowd mosh, never mind the stage, with a motivating Hardcore, while Silent offers quieter tones that come to easy pure violence. Tones are very catchy, then Visage begins with a Rap text in french, before going back to this visceral violence the band handles so well, then it ends with spoken words.
Tired Of It All melts to the band’s musical basis some Punk-Rock influences we all listened to at least once as teenagers, and this raging ball of energy makes us move as much as it catches us. Say No Word offers a stunning heaviness supported by an incredible strength, on which the vocalist proves his vocal abilities with super fast parts, and even a cavernous growl. We continue with Always, a quite vivid song that links cheerful parts with the band’s Metalcore and easily memorable clean vocals. Shoreline offers us waves noises for a short break before we continue with Overrated, an explosive song. Riffs are quite aggressive, and the rest of the rhythmic will follow, without forgetting this seizing groove and this bursting majestic final, that suddenly drops us on the melancholic Paralyzed, a song dedicated to all who suffer from the current situation, mainly the cultural sector. Even if it is soft and dark at the beginning, the song becomes very heavy at the end before ending.
Landmvrks isn’t just another teenage Metalcore/Hardcore band in lack of sensations. Lost In A Wave proves the band never ceases to evolve, as it is about raw strength as about technicality, since their beginning in 2014, and their path is far from the end!
90/100