Peace, love and death metal

Russian Circles - “Death Rides A Horse” mp3
Russian Circles @ myspace, two songs

If you’re into ice hockey, the term ”russian circles” should ring a bell for you. I don’t know had Finnish hockey team ever fall into that trick – oh well, they must have – but what I know is, I’m falling quickly in love with Enter, the Russian Circles’ debut album (out May 16th on Flameshovel).

Enter includes six songs of instrumental music that roughly explained kicks ass and expands the genre while at it. And no, it’s definitely not post-rock. However, it doesn’t mean that this would not be highly emotional at times. It builds its themes more on destructive rather than constructive goals, having all the energy and the emotional framework rock music provides. At the end of the album listener is gasping for breath or optionally so delighted from the music that he/she is forgetting to breathe.

Biography likes to underline the fact that Russian Circles are a live band and I’m not second guessing that. Songs have a lot of catchy hooks, they are huge enough to take over any crowd plus the band plays so well that it must be nice to watch them perform. That at times slick, prog-rock alike playing might be the turn-off for some in Russian Circles case; however those fills are rather few. It’s very hard trying to describe Russian Circles sound more in detail since their interpretation of music takes from so many different sources.

If not else, it’s tenderly loud. That should be something easy to appreciate.