Paradox
Through Pain There Is Joy
Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt
My friends in the 80s power melodic metal band will kill these guys if they don't change their name (all in Christian love, of course... I'm kidding, alright?!). Actually, this band is quite original, mixing growling death-like vocals with slow doomy metal. The words by the artist express the music here quite adequately: "20 minutes of holy black sludge similar to the Outcasts demo...the songs are depressing, sick and as anti-commercial as we can manage." That about says it. Slow, brooding, dark sludge metal. And don't forget the actual bloodied cloth and thorns that accompany Through Pain There Is Joy CD.