Royal Desolation - Puppet Dance [CD]

The EP showed the band firmly rooted in a fiery metalcore style. However two years of working on the band's debut album was well spent and developed the band's sound and musical identity significantly. Their first full-length album "Puppet Dance" will be released on Karl Walterbach's (Ex-Noise Records) Sonic Attack label, a susidiary of his Management Company, giving young talented bands a forum. "Puppet Dance" contains 12 songs that move between metalcore and modern metal with catchy choruses. Powerful riffing, a grooving rhythm section and the punctual use of 80s synth sounds form a mixture of hardness and melody that goes straight to the brain. The growling and shouting of frontman Raphael Schenk - who counts Corey Taylor and Mitch Lucker (R. I. P. ) of Suicide Silence among his idols and also writes most of the lyrics - leads, complemented by the clean vocals of rhythm guitarist Nathan Zkinwalker, to catchy choruses that invite you to sing along