Well, you all know I am a diehard fan of all-female bands or with female integrants. I think Metal music is so male that it urges the collaboration of our partners in crime in this sad and lonely and pathetic little planet. For our’s sake, they have been so receptive to the idea and more and more bands now have the presence of one or more girls in their lineups.
Ok, now, we have here Frantic Amber with their newest effort called “Death Becomes Her,” an album where the band proves to be very skilled. “Death Becomes Her” has Melodic Death Metal as its backbone, but it’s possible to feel many other Metal music influences to it especially Symphonic Metal. This influence makes the band vary a lot their vocals around the album producing some very atractive moments. By the way, this variation on vocals can be explained by the band’s roots back there in 2008 when they “started by founding guitarist Mary Siebecke with the intention to play metal with females. At first it was an experiment through various genres and with clean vocals. It wasn’t until 2010, with the recruitment of ballet dancer – wow! -Elizabeth Andrews on extreme vocals as well as Japanese vocal and guitar teacher Mio Jäger handling lead guitar and main songwriting, that the identity of Frantic Amber started to take its form into the melodic death metal beast they are known as today.”
As an interesting fact, they won a show on Sweden’s biggest rock festival: Sweden Rock Festival, competing
against thousands of bands.
Musicwise, as aforementioned “Death Becomes Her” has many traits of Melodic Death Metal, however this does not stop Frantic Amber to poison up their act with more Metal music elements. The result is a rich album full of references, and, the more important, full of anger and wrath. The Grindcore drenched “Gore Candy” is a great example of how far the band can go to make their music accessible, by accessible, I mean available to many Extreme Metal fans. It’s interesting how the guitars’ overtones change depending on the occasion given, for instance, as in “The Butcheress,” where it keeps the low tuning to follow the main theme idea. On the other hand, “In the Garden of Bones” it’s the bass which gives the lead creating a mesmerizing and terrifying mood that might affect the fan to, suddenly, take the clean vocals road and make a 360º shift, but, still, with the bass on lead. The same goes with grand finale the instrumental and kind of cinematic “Epitaphium (Outro)” with an initial clean piano that is replaced by a synthesizer and a guitar that go in a crescendo that bursts in a big break coming back to the clean piano and melodic theme. It’s the more melodic track of the album and the ones that surprises the most.
“Death Becomes Her” has many shifts and that’s what makes it so interesting. Frantic Amber prove to be a promising band.
Frantic Amber “Death Becomes Her” will be released on April 04th via ROAR.
Track Listing:
01. El Orfanato (Intro)
02. Bloodbath
03. Black Widow
04. Death Becomes Her
05. Hell’s Belle
06. Angel Maker
07. Jolly Jane
08. Gore Candy
09. The Butcheress
10. In the Garden of Bones
11. Epitaphium (Outro)
Watch “Hell’s Belles” official music video here:
Source: metaladdicts.com
