coma kai

Oh yes, that’s right people the Alt-UK legends that are coma Kai are back for more with a brand spanking new EP featuring 6 pure, unadulterated tracks of Metal bliss. If ‘firekillschildren’ impressed you then wait until you hear this – it will leave you gob smacked and gasping for breath with amazing superiority over anything anyone else in the genre is producing right now.

This brutal Oxford based band are at the top of their league with this amazing take on melodic metal. It is highly unique and is far from the tag of ‘Nu.’ This four piece just seem to have so much talent with their lavish vocals, blinding bass lines, grinding guitar riffs, and demon drum beats. They are obviously all tremendous musicians and as a result of their supreme talent they have come up trumps with this fiery EP effort. You just have to love their metal greatness as they are so damn good at it and seem to know the metal genre like the back of their hand. There is many a fine tune on this baby and it really gets you fired up and wishing that you were in the centre of it all at one of their gigs – I am sure that they would be blinding live, putting on one hell of a show, reflecting the astounding recorded experience.

This is a great little CD, with effective usage of samples that will get your juices flowing and before you know it you’ll be out of the house, buying gig tickets! Oxford have a lot of amazing bands to show off, and coMA Kai are no exception with their amazing display of Metal that is sure to please even the hard to impress music critics. It will not get them signed to a major label as it is not really chart friendly stuff but true fans of metal, those who have looked past the commercialised chart friendly giants of Kerrang can surely see the talent which this band has in their grasp. This EP will definitely gain the band some new fans and hopefully get them a string of further gigs as they are a band who really do deserve it and I wish them well in their future conquests.

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Ok I’ve had this CD in my possession for a while now and I decided that I would get my act together and actually review the thing and stop being such a lazy bastard! This band has been described as New Skool Metal so I really haven’t got a clue what to expect.

Track 1 is called ‘Intro’ and as you can imagine it is the introduction. It contains what seems to be electronic drums sort of thing with samples chucked in to liven it up a bit. I like it as it is something different to kick off with and shows that they are not just your average run of the mill sort of band.

After this track you are thrown in to the actual music of coma kai with ‘Fury.’ This is a cool song because it is heavy and has an eerie sort of feel to it. The vocals are really cool because one minute they can seem quite normal and then the normalness of it will turn in to shouting and it sounds really great and you are sitting there wondering when the mood of the song is going to change so it really keeps you on the edge of your seat and leaves you gagging for more – which is good as there are another two songs to come! The guitars have a distortion which makes the sound extremely raw and impressive and with such powerful drumming you are left dribbling by this amazing metal band from right here in Britain!

The third track, ‘old skool reject’ again contains shouty vocals and thumping drumming. This makes for a good listen and with the distortion of the guitars they really produce a highly original CD and I am sure they are proud of it. There are pauses in the song for dramatic effect and I think that the way they use them works really well and adds to the excitement of the song and I feel that this is a truly cracking tune.

The final track, ‘7teensins’ kicks off with some more samples to boost it off with style. It is in a similar style to track 3 with the distorted guitars and pounding drum beat. The vocals again go from calm and steady to shouty and it is exciting to listen to. The mood seems to calm down at times and then as you think the tune is over it will start up again and surprise you as it begins to regain momentum. This happens quite a few times and as a result you do not get bored of the song and it just keeps restoring your faith in it as it is like hearing a whole new song again. This band are highly original and I feel that they have what it takes to create a whole new genre and have many a band taking influences from what they do and encouraging kids to start off their own metal bands with a similar style. Viva coma kai!

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