Devil Sold His Soul
"A FRAGILE HOPE"

( EYESOFSOUND Records - EOSCD005)

ALBUM REVIEW

01. IN THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT (2:23)
02. AS THE STORM UNFOLDS (6:11) MYSPACE
03. THE STARTING (6:34)
04. SIRENS CHANT (4:15)
05. AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL (4:23)
06. BETWEEN TWO WORDS (7:49)
      MYSPACE   YOUTUBE
07. AWAITING THE FLOOD (4:27)
08. DAWN ON THE FIRST DAY (7:07)
09. THE CORONER (4:33)
10. HOPE (4:30)

DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL ‘A Fragile Hope’ Album

Length:  52:12 (min:secs)
Released: 18th June, 2007

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Album Line-up: 
Guitar: RICHARD CHAPPLE
Guitar: JONNY RENSHAW
Vocals: ED GIBBS
Bass: IAIN TROTTER
Samples: PAUL KITNEY
Drums: DAVE ROBINSON

[ BACK ]   [ MAIN ]

Following on from their 2005 debut recording it’s been a long wait to hear something new, but Devil Sold His Soul are back with a well worth waiting for full length album bursting with a truly holocaustic collected works that may well become responsible for mankind’s cataclysmic end - so be warned!

If DSHS were a landscape, they’d be a shear cliff face opening out onto a vast ocean - while seemingly soothing waters laps hypnotically at the rocks below, the sheer vastness of the sea and the height from which you observe demands your respect, while the wind lashes angrily right into your face with utter retort. Maintaining intensity by playing with light and shade while interspersing some intriguing doodling, it’s a brutal barrage of tumultuous turmoil, crushing guitars, thundering rhythms, its the cinquecento of shouty, screaming vocals with sonic soprano singing - in short it’s brutal metal served with waves of ethereal ambience and breathtaking lyrics.

Igniting with atmosphere gained from the intro “As The Storm Unfolds” opens with ground shaking energy, which switches on and off as if preordained by the gods. A quiet beginning but like a burning fuse “The Starting” then explodes and develops from simple pure energy into a distinct essence that builds and carves a detailed form from the very essence of artistic passion. The prophetically entitled “Awaiting The Flood” washes you away like a July weekend in Tewkesbury, dark evil riffs poor over every surface to encapsulate the dread of going under for that third and final time. It is a truly awesome song. “Dawn On The First Day” allows you to grip onto the tiniest thread of optimism with the most enjoyable melodies, harmonies and the sung vocals, which give real feeling of “Hope”, albeit fragile rays of light to the real radiance that is somewhere just beyond.

Maturing nicely into their own skin, delivering waves of audio emotions in atmospheric resonance, DSHS take you to a place that is visually bleak with nothing but dark shadows and traces of grey, however aurally the depth of colours astound and mesmerise like a millennium fireworks display. So, enjoy the show and celebrate the probable end of mankind!

12345678910 - Rigsby  (3rd October, 2007)
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