OLD HAUNTS
IT IS
the latest project from Illawarra rock dog Nathan Foley – best known for cutting sick with his brother Ben in the alt-rock project Elia Fell – who’s cranked his amps up a little higher and whacked on an extra distortion pedal to conjure up a maniacally heavy, yet also wickedly groovy new world of sound.
IT SOUNDS LIKE
the alt-metal boom circa 2002 was revisited with all the tech we’ve since gained to make guitars sound great. The tones are sharp, crunchy and deliciously dynamic, and the way Foley dips and dives around them with his enrapturing honeyed vocal melodies… Words really can’t do it justice. You absolutely need to hear it for yourself.
YOU’LL DIG IT IF YOU LIKE
Northlane, Deftones and Periphery. Fellow Aussie metallers Dead Letter Circus are an easy callback as well – it clicks instantly when you learn their shredder Clint Vincent produced the first three Old Haunts singles. But rest assured there’s so much unique about this mystifying new project, too; Foley has clear influences, but also a virulently strong voice of his own.
YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT
the twisting and turbulent single “Iron Birds”, which marries deep, droning post-hardcore melodies with a cataclysmic prog-metal twist that demands a thrash of the head with every pummelling jut, while Foley’s soaring vocal cuts deep into the soul. We need a full-length album of this stuff, like, yesterday.