ThE WALKING DEAD ORChESTRA

Resurrect

UNIQUE LEADER Gallic deathsters get caught between two fronts

Originally released in their homeland last year, the second effort from Frenchmen The Walking Dead Orchestra occupies a bit of a no man’s land: not quite bludgeoning enough to satisfy the deathcore crowd they aimed for on their debut, yet lacking the volume of eviscerating riffs to stand up as a great technical death metal album. Though not short of ability, as the odd flash of techy noodling on Through The

Realm Of Chaos and the changeable nature of Vengeful

Flavors will attest, Resurrect sees so many ideas hurled your way it’s difficult to find a vantage point from which to see the chaos unfold. Which is a shame because when they hit the target, as on the laser-guided fury and eerie leads of Demoligarchie or the lurching Siamese Traitors the quintet show they can tame their craft. FOR FANS OF: GOROD, PSYCROPTIC, THE ACACIA STRAIN