5 Best Metal Albums Of June 2018
3. Vein – Errorzone
If modern, acclaimed youngsters like Code Orange, Loathe, Møl, Conjurer and Svalbard have taught us anything about the key to success in modern heavy metal, it’s that a band has to be diverse, but also incendiary and insanely to-the-point at the same time.
The upstarts Vein, with their new debut album Errorzone, are the latest group to have earned a coveted, lauded status by mastering that balance. Though their cuts are mind-bogglingly fast-paced and all succinctly clock in between one and four minutes, their briefness belies the sheer variety on display.
The American debutants masterfully unite a ton of subgenres on their assertive first step, including hardcore, nu metal, industrial, noise rock, prog and even drum-and-bass, resulting in a disc with a wide arsenal of weapons with which to kick your ass. Errorzone gladly wears its eclecticism on its sleeve, kick-starting with the single “Virus://Vibrance”, which witnesses polyrhythmic guitar chords quickly dancing over dubstep-like drumbeats, before a terrific breakdown transforms the track into a ceaseless cavalcade of ground-rattling percussion, frenetic growling and spectacularly grooving riffing.
Unpredictability is also injected into Errorzone through its plethora of interludes, including the alarm-like “Anesthesia” and the whirring “Untitled”.
Overall… pure, gorgeous mania.