Very little info is available about this Ukrainian Melodic Metal act, due in part because they still have their own website (www.) mindstructure.net under construction, and in part because I still cannot log onto MySpace with the network PC I use to retrieve info off the Internet.
But here's what I know: the band was founded in 2009, and consists of singer Sergey “Sergo” Zaluzhny, guitarists Roman “Otezz” Belov and Dmitry Bugayov, bassist Igor “Gary Guy” Gai, and drummer Nikolay Kostecky. Playing several shows in the Ukraine, they managed to support some of the CIS-popular acts in 2010-2011, and recorded their first promo material in 2010. The band released its single Bury Me In Lies online in January of 2011, which gained 'em positive reviews from the electronic media and resulted in Mind Structure's cultivating of a worldwide fanbase. In early 2013 the band signed with Casket Music, which resulted in When Life And Death Destroy first getting a UK distribution from Feb. 11 one. Now, in October, the albums is getting its distribution to place outside the British isles, and I'm certain that all music fans into modern Melodic Metal with simply adore what this band has on offer.
Because, you know, there's a good use of elements from several sub-genres of Metal, both musically as well as vocally. You will, besides the “normal” mix of clean and (moderately) aggressive singing, find an occasional grunt, as well as a well-placed “gang”-vocal passage, or a rather screamed bit...but also you'll hear the guys go into a balladesque mode (check the track “Searching For The Answers”), or throw in something which is more at home in the more extreme forms of Metal (check out the gut-wrenching vocal passage during the album closing “Undone”). Musically, the band alternates both in intensities as in pace, and there's elements of Progressive Metal, of Technical Death Metal, and even some Thrashy riffing...making the album an overall enjoyable one in its variety. The title track of the album, by the way, is a 15-minute, 3-part thing with an instrumental mid-section. You know, I guess, as mentioned by the label, if you're a fan of the likes of Killswitch Engage, Scar Symmetry, Mercenary, In Flames, Avenged Sevenfold, Jeff Loomis, Soilwork, lamb Of God, Trivium, and/ or Arch Enemy, you are bound to like Mind Structure as well!
And now for the more positive side of this review. In spite of the lack of info on the band, I have found a way for you to listen to the complete album at (http://) soundcloud.com/mindstructure/sets/when-life-and-death-destroy. If the above has had any appeal to you at all, go check out the music now...don't wait, do it NOW!!!