Circle Of Rage are a five-headed band (vocalist Tommo, bass player Lee, guitarists Veitch and Scott, and drummer Xander) from the United Queendom. They recorded Rage In D-Minor with Oz Craggs at the Kent-based Hidden Track Studio. The initial release date was foreseen in 2012, but due to circumstances unknown (and who cares anyway?), it has been delayed, postponed, until now.
Rage In D-Minor has duration of almost twenty five minutes and brings a metallic form of modern Hardcore. It’s not just the kind of Hardcore you might be used to, but a symbiosis in quasi-perfect equilibrium with Funk and Punk, Thrash Metal, Metalcore, Doom, Modern Extreme Metal and so on. It’s an amalgam of Mastodon, System Of A Down, Discharge, Bullet For My Valentine, Refused and Centurions Ghost. In general it all sounds slightly hysterical and over-done, but once you get through the totality, you might appreciate the subtle details that make this record just that little better than most of the comparable acts. Nothing more to add…