Anyone familiar with both Flicker Records and Pillar knows Pillar is the heaviest band on the roster. Well. . . it used to be that way. Then Flicker signed two harder acts: the hardcore rock of Staple, and the metalcore sound of Mortal Treason.
Featuring a member of the Mat Hoffman Professional BMX Team as the lead vocalist in Seth Kimbrough, Mortal Treason paves the way with an almost death metal influenced metalcore sound. It's hard to call this Death Metal, because it doesn't lend the more dark (in style) feel to the music but doesn't do justice to metalcore--it's a little bit too extreme on the metal side.
Seth bites on vocals, anywhere from a low growl to a higher "yeah" type scream. Drum sonics just pound down with heavy throbs, fast, slow, name it. The electric guitars work with a chug-riff-open-close feel that doesn't necessarily run in that manner, and the bass guitar adds some well-received lower-end boost.
A Call to the Martyrs tells of defeat, weakness, dead to the truth and Christ recovering a person from those shortcomings--giving us a reason to love Christ, others, and ourselves.
The CD ends after the main eight tracks with a final, acoustic, kind of gritty worship with an admittance that we all need Christ.
Be warned: this is extreme--nothing like rock, Pillar, worship--intense in sound, with a good message of the need to wake up and embrace Christ.
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