The loud and proud chorus is quite reminiscent of that time period for the band. I could hear this song on Soldiers Under Command or even Yellow and Black Attack. As this song progresses it feels more and more like a classic Stryper track.
Next up it the crunchy “Same Old Story” that opens with a riff that would make the late Eddie Van Halen proud. Once again the song is dominated by guitar prowess that is pronounced with a solo around the three minute mark, followed by a guitar piece that has a mid-eastern feel to it. The second guitar joins the rhythm and takes the song to a haunting level before the lead vocals piece the palette of sound. This guitar angst in layered with thunderous drums from Robert Sweet and a pounding bass line that makes your head start to bob before you even know it. This is undoubtedly produced using the Washburn V2FR Michael Sweet Signature guitar. The second track is “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” which opens with a Black Sabbath style guitar riff that is coupled with the classic squeal that Styper has made distinctively their own.
Yet somehow manage retain the vocal and guitar melody that we have come to love, and frankly expect from Stryper. In the past decade of career rebirth they have developed a pronounced heavier sound in comparison to their classic style. The Final Battle has elevated the bands song writing and musicianship to a significantly higher level. The Final Battle picks up where its predecessors No More Hell To Pay (2013), Fallen (2015), God Damn Evil (2018), and Even The Devil Believes (2020) left off. In an era of cookie-cutter bands, YouTube artist, and trend following musicians, Stryper has put out an album that has made me, and hopefully you, excited about music again. It has been a very long time since I heard a song that hits all the markers in the way this initial track from Stryper does. If we stopped right here, this one song would be enough to make this one of the top metal releases of the year. The guitar solo, which sounds to be another stellar twin guitar attack by both Oz Fox and Michael Sweet tears through the middle of the piece leaving you yearning for more and more of their guitar virtuosity.
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Not to be overshadowed by the first few seconds of this opening track titled “Transgressor” the remainder of the 4:25 opus is chalked full of crunchy metal riffs, gang style vocals, and multiple speaker destroying shrieks from Michael. This opening bellow makes this album worth the purchase price ten times over. Oh my goodness! The album opens with Michael Sweet’s voice in top form, belting out a hair-raising scream that could wake the dead and make any true metal fan stand at attention to salute the undisputed master of metal vocals. Full of fast furious guitars, driven semi blast beat drums, and cut to the point vocals, Apus will not disappoint. If you are looking to expand your collection and want a stand out album try out Apus.
As a musician, I find myself wanting to figure out TSA’s riffs to improve my own playing abilities. Polyrhythms, glitch picking, and many, many other technical tricks appear on this album which caters to the true technical death metal enthusiast. The Schoenberg Automaton tries to compile every bit of technical application into Apus as it can. A quick track at 2:02, Vengeance gets right to the point of showing what TSA are fully capable of doing. Precision start and stop riffing start a head bobbing cadence carrying the song before going into an acoustic break to end out Vengeance. This track rips from the start with spastic guitar and the roaring vocals of Jake Gerstle. To promote Apus, the band released the single Vengeance along with a video for the track.
After getting noticed by a few online music communities the band formed a solid line up and wrote the album Vela.Īpus is now the next installment of The Schoenberg Automaton, complex riffing, and dynamic drum patterns are all over this album. The first songs were written with electronic drums to form a small demo that was released online. Starting back in 2009, TSA was a side project of unused riffs tied together to create the basis of their first songs. Hailing from Australia, The Schoenberg Automaton are a part of the rising Australian Death Metal wave, joining the ranks of Thy Art is Murder, Boris the Blade, and Aversions Crown, to name a few. Released June 3 rd, Apus is a punishing 13 tracks of technical genius. Following up the mass success of Vela, The Schoenberg Automaton are pushing the way of abstract death metal with their latest release Apus.
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