1. Empires
2. Paint the Sky
3. Worlds Apart

I love it when CDs start with a real kick in the teeth, the challenge, though, is making the rest of the music live up to the standard set at the beginning. Heights set the scene with an epic combination of soaring guitar and synth solos set over grinding guitar chords and leave us crashing down to Earth with a gutteral, screaming heap of hardcore metal.

A good range of varied articulations of different riffs keeps the sound interesting and when when the brutality meets the calm, surprisingly it works, and the layers of different emotions and feelings within the music are powerful.

A passionate and moderately high-pitched, Converge-like scream is often interspersed with understated, post-hardcore-esque melodic vocals with a few gang-shouts in there to hammer the odd chorus home.

With this little 3-tracker of a CD, it’s all about those various distinct level of music that have been carefully constructed so that on each listen there’s a new element to notice, a new tune or effect to prick up your ears.

Strong and compelling stuff.

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