Captain Roselyn

My Surrender Is A Victory EP

Written by: PP on 12/07/2013 20:13:16

Captain Roselyn are a new Danish metal band of the mathcore variant from Århus. They differ from your conventional applicants in that their debut EP "My Surrender Is A Victory" features at least some desire for differentiation and experimentation beyond the primal desire of sounding as heavy as fucking possible, which is often my biggest complaint when it comes to young metal bands in this country. Especially the vocals, delivered in both growled and screamed format, are better than what you usually encounter on debut EPs by metal bands in this country, but also the songwriting in general strives for an identity of some sort, even if it isn't entirely clear which one at this stage of their career.

Case in point: "Iron Sharpens Iron", which is probably the best song on this EP. It presents a muscular sound that's plentiful in breakdowns, horror chords, and tearing passages, but also in tempo shifts, slick riffs and attempts at embedding subdued melody towards the end of the song. It starts out by drawing from the southern fried sound of the chaotic southern metallers in Every Time I Die, evident especially in the dynamic between the explosive guitars and the visceral vocals, but then later on skips the southern element altogether to push towards a more metallic sound instead. The horror chords can also be traced towards Norma Jean, as well as a bunch of the really, really underground UK screamo-metal outfits (think Maths) that were attempting a similarly chaotic and heavy combination of metal and the -core genres without going anywhere near the plague that is metalcore.

But while "My Surrender Is A Victory" contains promising signs for Captain Roselyn, much work remains to be done in the songwriting department. Using horror chords as the foundation of the majority of your riffs is pretty cool, but they need to find a way to a), fuse them better together with the rest of their songwriting and b), to find a good balance between them and explosive passages that lead into the kind of dynamics that erupt live venues into insane mosh pits - also known as better timing. Of course, you can nitpick and suggest the band also need to sound tighter and innovate some more with their songwriting, but for a debut EP, this is fine, and a good foundation for the future.

Download: A Place Of Reaffirmation, Iron Sharpens Iron
For the fans of: a metal version of Every Time I Die and Norma Jean
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Release date 05.03.2013
Self-Released

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