GhostSeeker is ready for its debut album.
After signing to RPM-ROAR, the band comprising Tim Campey (guitar), Celeste Bojczuk (vocals), Cory Walkeden (guitar), Daniel Breen (vocals) and Daniel Gay (drums) unveil Divergence.
The band kicks off with Internment, a first composition that relies on groovy riffs to set up the vocal duet between Celeste and Daniel, who answer each other and then join forces on the chorus with its very modern tones. There’s a moment’s hesitation before the final moshpart, then The Looking Glass takes over with a more soothing touch led by the vocalist, but disturbed by a few accelerations between screams and overexcited drums. Rage returns on Wake Up (Impostor), where vociferations and Electro samples join simple but effective jerky riffs, then Metempsychoses offers aggressive tones soothed by Celeste‘s interventions. The few harmonics also add heady touches compared to the rhythmic, and then it’s with Curse Till The End that the musicians turn to a raw-mix groove to convince. The track will surely have its moments of glory thanks to the contrast in live performances, but we find a different touch on Glow In Decay where the musicians are joined by Ionei Heckenberg (Ocean Sleeper), then we return to the soaring modern passages on Dissension thanks to clean vocals and other samples. Screams are always present on the most furious moments, such as the final surge, but they are almost absent from the progressive introduction of A Reverie In Atonement, arriving only at the very end to finally take their rightful place. Beta War, with its crowd-pleasing riffs, follows as the vocalists go wild, before the cybernetic The Prototype takes its place to put a violent finishing touch to the album, while remaining rooted in modernity.
GhostSeeker are part of this recent wave of bands mixing Metalcore with modern Electro elements to accentuate their riffs, and I have no doubt that they will seduce an audience very fond of this touch with Divergence.
75/100