Order Of The Dead

Past Members, G - Jay Cala, the sheer force of the vocal delivery here will sound as frightening as an elevator ride with Ray Rice, D - Jay Cala, G - Matt Zaso, D - Mike Giannelli, Black Curse wastes no time with pleasantries, B - Marcus Alexander, Order Of The Dead blast through the monotonously mundane with a brutal, In an era when too many “metal” bands seem focused on cramming one hundred breakdowns into every song, D - Dino Verzillo, and a triumphant middle finger to current trends that holds its bloody horns high., The go for the throat ferocity of heavy metals glory days are prevalent on every nuance and note, To the uninitiated, G - Chad Chudyk, D - Mike Adams, V - Bill Lander, B - John Malone, G - Colin Hanna, Members, B - Toby Bailey, squeal, instantly taking you back to an era when metal gods were worshiped at the Altar Of Madness by you and your high school buddies; on Walkmans and well-worn cassette tapes alike., and keeps Black Curse fresh and interesting through multiple spins. Always technically dazzling, but never losing the listener to a display of self-important musical excess that plague so many other bands of this genre, or tuning their guitars to drop Q and chugging away aimlessly, and dive bomb, G - Sam Cuevas, learning some embarrassing on stage choreography that would make N’SYNC blush, but to those who long for the days of real and absolutely pummeling metal, and decisively old school roar. A Black Curse Comes is unabashedly heavy, but is always undercut with just enough European sounding guitar melody to give the album a constant feeling of contrast and tension. A push and pull between the dulcet and the discordant. It is in this aspect where Order Of The Dead truly shines, the song craft is always the key focus here. Each instrument working together seamlessly: Pushing a well-oiled kill machine onward through nightmares of political corruption, G - Jody Roberts