Nameless-Shapeshifter-Album Review-Planetmosh

This has got to be one of my noisiest Xmas Eve’s ever by reviewing Shapeshifter, the debut album from Birmingham based noisemongers Nameless. These seven tracks slaver away for a gruelling but still rewarding listen, point proven by opening track ‘Tempest’.It’s a brief, ethereal instrumental, almost hypnotic and grandiose that could herald an apocalypse at will.

‘Worth Of Man’ is all kick drum cataclysm, driving this metal monster to Hell and back on throat shredding vocals, bruising bass bombast and riffs that flay the skin.

‘Shapeshifter’ is a completely different animal as a leering vocal sends chills down the spine. Riffs scythe along that serrate anything that stands in its path. A comparison is like early Entombed with goth like elements.

‘Rosaline’ is a brief minute of earworm nuances, exploding into a Hellish grind, potent enough to raise the dead, offset by a rap vocal midsection, ending on full psycho mode.

‘Pacify And Reason’ creeps up on you like being pursued in a dark alley, writhing and churning on a cathartic vocal, Godzilla stomped drum overload, bursting into life when these gargantuan riffs decimate.

‘Finger On The Pulse’ is all histrionic hardcore menace of fretboard lunacy, a gutteral vocal and a relentless drum dirge to make it my standout track.

Final track ‘Crystalise’ gives us chance to take a breath as this epic to end all epics is an ambient tinged ballad with balls, enchanting for six minutes of majesty, muscling up for an all consuming outro of guitar overload.

Nameless band info :- http://linktr.ee/NamelessUk

Nameless band personnel :-

Nick Marston – Drums.

Jordan Ebanks – Vocals.

Lewis James – Guitar.

Liam Brain – Bass Guitar.

Shapeshifter album track listing :-

Tempest.

Worth Of Man.

Shapeshifter.

Rosaline.

Pacify And Reason.

Finger On The Pulse.

Crystalise.