UNE MISÈRE

Sermon NUCLEAR BLAST

Eclectic Icelanders start to forge their own enthralling alloy

Icelandic sextet Une Misère show some serious promise on their debut album.

Sermon gobbles up all kinds of influences, from modern death metal to straight-up hardcore to alternative rock, and smashes them all together in a package that is familiar, but never generic. The middle of the record is certainly the sweet spot.

Fallen Eyes starts with a beautifully clean melodic vocal and some wailing chords and then transitions into a blastbeat-heavy rager, followed by the early-slipknot drum’n’ bass-infused groove metal of Beaten. But most of

Sermon is well worth checking out if you are a fan of the core sounds of contemporary metal. If they build on this over future releases, then we could be looking at a very good band indeed. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Parkway Drive, Decapitated, Whitechapel

STEPHEN HILL