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There
is a ‘song’ here called “Materia Prima”. I don’t know
what the hell is it doing there. Is it supposed to
provide respite? Give us a break? Give the band a break?
Show us their introspective, hipster, artsy side? Why?
It has only been three songs since The Sleeping Eye
started and the band deems wise to include this little
piece of something, anything but guitars, drums or bass.
It’s strange yeah. Strange and unmetal like the album
cover which says zero about the music and has more color
than any of the seven songs, excepting that little tune,
of course.
It doesn’t
bother me. Not at all. It’s just strikes me as odd. Especially
when one takes into consideration how straight up metal Iron Age
actually is. Then there is “A Younger Earth”, an unapologetic
piece of tacit mid-paced thrash metal. The riff is rude,
repetitive, hammering bitterness through clenched teeth
vocalization. It comes to an end not with a bang but with a wtf,
which I think is Twitter-speak for ‘what the hell was that?’.
Just noise and rumble. A full minute and twenty seconds of that.
The rest is
a day in the life of tight metal. Iron Age hail from Austin, TX
and their music leaves me at a loss for words. Not that I am
shocked because of how awesome they are. They are pretty damn
good indeed, but their take on metal is rather colorless and
direct, basic and derivative, and yet it’s impossible to listen
to The Sleeping Eye without realizing how real and pure it
sounds. Yeah, the vocals are gnarly, at least as gnarly as they
are one-dimensional. And the same could be said about the rest.
The riffs are economic but they keep up and have an 80’s classic
quality to them. Surprisingly, the same could be said about the
rest.
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