MISTER MISERY

A Brighter Side Of Death ARISING EMPIRE

Scandic horror metallers prove not so grave

You can hear the influence of Motionless In White and Ice Nine Kills bleeding through these Swedish ghouls’ sophomore album. Mister Misery may be working to a well-trodden formula, but the heightened aggression they’ve dialled up this time around prevents it from being a carbon copy of 2019’s

Unalive. Synth-drenched salvos and twisted howls collide on goth-stompers

Ballad Of The Headless Horseman and Buried, offering up plentiful creature-inspired comforts, while the high-octane riffs of I’ll Never Be Yours inject a scuzzy sleaze-rock attitude and ramp up the chantable choruses. If you’re hungry for vaudeville, A Brighter Side Of Death provides enough entertainment for you to sink your teeth into. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Motionless In White, Ice Nine Kills, Miss May I

SOPHIE MAUGHAN