RIFFOCITY - Under a Mourning Sky
Soman
Records
2013
is the year that in a town of Northern Greece called Serres RIFFOCITY was born.
During the first 3 years of their existence and particularly in 2016 they released
an EP called “Disciples of the Storm”. Now a year after their first official
work the band felt ready to create and release their first full length album
entitled “Under a Mourning Sky” which I am about to present to you here.
The
debut album of a band shows clearly their influences and also the abilities of
the band. On the second aspect of their abilities, I have noticed that their
first work shows a very mature character and an experience that can only be found
in bands with many years of existence. As for their influences, RIFFOCITY are
proud of them and show them in every composition, but also honor them by
filtering them through their own musical identity.
Their
sound can be easily tagged as thrash metal, but this doesn’t show in detail the
full aspect of it. The basis of their music is of course thrash metal as it was
played in the U.S.A. According to me they bring to mind such bands as EXODUS,
METALLICA and TESTAMENT, but that is not all. RIFFOCITY also love melodies and
they know how to use them in order to make a song memorable. Actually they have
a strong traditional power/heavy metal feeling in some songs that reminds us of
IRON MAIDEN and ICED EARTH. Finally the compositions have a slight progressive
orientation that makes the whole result even more interesting.
Lyrically
now the band deals with themes like death, vanity, politics, mythology and all
these elements that define humanity. I also found really interesting and
original the use of Greek lyrics in the song entitled “Arnis Oblivion”.
As
I said above this is a release that should definitely be expected by a more
experienced band and this is impressive. It also captures the passion of a band
making its first steps and above all includes compositions that will make you
listen to them again and again. I think that RIFFOCITY introduce themselves in
the global thrash metal scene in the best possible way. Now it’s up to you to
check them out.
Nick
“Verkaim” Parastatidis
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