CANE HILL

Kill The Sun

RISE Nu metal revivalists reinvent themselves for the modern age Cane Hill’s new mini-album is so far from late-90s nu metal bounce that you could be forgiven for thinking you were listening to a different band. The NOLA four-piece kick off with 86d – No Escort and its industrial-tinged atmospherics, melancholic hooks and Elijah Witt’s Layne Staley-esque vocals open new horizons. The approach is more measured, but it’s tempered with squealing guitar solos and expansive ambience. Velvety cleans sit alongside mid-paced riffs while the title track pushes them further into leftfield – there’s even a sax thrown in. Elsewhere, sporadic bursts of distortion on Acid

Rain and Smoking Man contrast with the flamencotinged acoustics of Empty.

Out with the nu, in with the new – Kill The Sun celebrates the element of surprise.

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FOR FANS OF: King 810, The Acacia Strain,

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SOPHIE MAUGHAN