A to Z Runner Up: Bravura

Band:  Bravura
Song:  Burst
Album:  Battle Of The Suns (2017)
Genre:  Blackened Death Metal

Welcome to the first runner up on the 2018 A to Z!

First thing I have to address, I love this album cover.  It's just so good, I can't see how anybody would dislike it (as a Metal album at least).  Secondly, I can't pass these dudes up, cause I happen to know the singer.  My dude Steve is fantastic at what he does, which among other things is screaming in such a way that I'm sure he's gonna blow out his voice, but he doesn't.  Like, seriously.  I don't know how he does it, but he's got a psychotic rasp to his voice that just pains me every time I've tried to replicate it.

Then the music.  Bravura is a band that's just filled with incredibly talented musicians.  It's absurd really, since Erie is filled with a lot of kinda sloppy Hardcore bands I don't always remember that a lot of really technical musicians around here.  Bravura managed to snag 5 of them though, and it really comes to light with their music.  They put on a great live show too.  They had one just last night that I unfortunately missed, but they were playing their music while a horror movie played on a screen behind them.  Now that's pretty nifty if you ask me.

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Bravura - Battle Of The Suns

Band:  Bravura
Song:  Battle Of The Suns
Album:  Battle Of The Suns
Genre:  Blackened Death Metal
Bandcamp:  bravurabandofficial.bandcamp.com

Yo, my dudes in Bravura dropped a music video on Saturday!

These guys released a fantastic album a month or so ago that I really loved.  I was gonna post some stuff from it, but I figured I'd wait till they released a music video cause I knew it was coming sooner than later.

So first off, the video is great.  It's honestly really freaking good.  I loved it.

Second.  The song is amazing.  The guitar leads are freaking tight and the whole band clearly works well together.  I've got huge bass player envy for their bassist too, he plays way too fast and I'm never gonna be able to match that.

Then there's Steve's vocals.  This isn't the best example of what I'm about to say, but you can buy the album for cheap or stream it to check what I mean.  But his vocal work just sounds straight up painful.  Like, I don't know what he does to himself, but he just rips out this horrendous raspy wonderful noise and can still talk like a normal human outside of the band.  Mad respect my man, that's intense.

Check it guys, and check the rest of the album too, it's solid work.

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