Crossfaith – ‘Species’
Mixing heavy music with electronic / dance music isn’t exactly a new idea. From the catchy rave-rock of Enter Shikari to the panic-inducing glitchy hardcore of Code Orange, it’s a concept that the alternative crowd is now familiar and comfortable with. As such, you must now be doing something interesting with the available elements to stand out from the crowd, compared with a few years back when you could clumsily slap some dance beats into a metal song and be called a pioneer. Unfortunately for Japanese trance-metal outfit Crossfaith, this EP just does not meet that standard. It’s not that it’s bad, per se, as the songs are packed with energy and the record itself is extremely well produced. It just… Imagine that you forced a computer to listen to nothing but the soundtracks to the Reside...
