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The Destro ~As the Coil Unwinds~

RaY RaY Pine | Philly | 09/29/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The Destro are a metalcore band (despite what their press release would have us believe) that follows in the Unearth/Blood Has Been Shed direction. Their press release compares them to Napalm Death, Pantera and, Lamb of God.



I sort of hear it and kind of get it. The Destro fashion themselves very directly after southern metal legends, Pantera on this disc. You can hear the Phil Anselmo like screams and Abbot percussion in the chorus to "'Beast Burden," which sounds like it was taken from Pantera's ""Slaughtered"" off of Far Beyond Driven, or the overall Pantera sound in ""Knife in Hand."" The disc has a definitive southern metal swagger to it that, in this reviewers opinion, helps lift it a notch above the normal metalcore out there today.



The highlight of the disc is a sprawling nine minute instrumental that closes out the album called "Forever Embedded." This song doesn't drift too often into the southern metal style and stays rather atmospheric in its style--almost post hardcore to some extent but still, it's a slow burning, groove driven metal piece.



While many bands in this scene have been borrowing and taking a queue from Pantera for years, The Destro sound like they fill a niche that no one else is taking the gauntlet up for yet.

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