Dying Wish is ready to fight.
For the release of their new album, Flesh Stays Together, out on SharpTone, the band led by Emma Booster (vocals), Sam Reynolds (guitar), Pedro Carrillo (guitar), Jeff Yambra (drums), and Jon Mackey (bass, Vatican, ex-The Merciless Concept) called on producer Will Putney (Fit for an Autopsy, Better Lovers, END).
The album starts slowly with I Don’t Belong Anywhere, which lets the vocalist lead the dance while the guitars warm up in the background, but then they explode and give way to violence beneath the screams. It should be noted, however, that the rhythm breaks down before the finale, then a final mosh part leads us to A Curse Upon Iron, which picks up again with virulence, but allows for more airy elements before returning to its hardcore roots for even more contrast, not skimping on the heaviness. I’ll Know You’re Not Around starts off gently, but you can feel that aggression is never far away, coloring most of the song while leaving short bursts of clean vocals before leaving us with the short but stirring Revenge In Carnage, which seems to be the perfect track for live mosh sessions. Things calm down again with Nothing Like You, which allows us to breathe with a gentle melody that the saturation eventually catches up with and completely devours, reshaping it in its own image, then leading into Surrender Everything and its brutal groove complemented by Emma‘s screams. The song is barely three minutes long but knows exactly how to get straight to the point and make us want to break our necks before the melancholic introduction of Moments I Regret, which in turn is corrupted by aggression, dancing with it during the most melodious choruses. After a short break, the band follows up with Empty The Chamber and its vindictive riffs, which also call for total mayhem in a boiling pit, while adding an increasingly present dissonance to the sound until Heaven Departs plunges us back into sweetness with a first passage in clear vocals. Roars and aggressive choruses are also on the program, and the two worlds eventually collaborate to lead us to the final eruption, then to Flesh Stays Together, the last track, which starts in total tranquility, bringing in the instruments very gradually to finally create one of the wildest mosh parts on the album before a definitive silence.
With its Metalcore sound featuring a variety of contrasting influences, Dying Wish is slowly approaching its tenth year of existence. The band plans to hit the road again once Flesh Stays Together is released, both to promote the album and to let us mosh to its catchy riffs.
85/100
