Marseille metalcore hopefuls LANDMVRKS invite you to get Lost In The Waves on eclectic third album…
Words: James Mackinnon
Throw a rock in the air and chances are you will hit a metalcore band. There is presently no shortage of low-squatting musicians that can string together a chugging verse, soaring chorus and obligatory beatdown. Fortunately, LANDMVRKS have a few more strings to their bow, nimbly sidestepping between genres across their third album.
The Marseille quintet make no bones when it comes to penning a dyed-in-the-wool mosh track, delivering Rainfall with more neck-snapping twists than Pazuzu from The Exorcist. But then along comes Always, a funked up number boasting unashamedly poppy vocals. Call it a misstep, call it trolling – either way, the band jump into it wholeheartedly. And is that a laid-back trap beat snaking through Visage?