It’s not unimpressive either there’s a great amount of venom in Mike Williams’ voice that comes from an across-the-board channeling of melodic death metal influences, giving tracks like Like Weeds In The Field some greater force and heft than virtually anyone from their scene currently doing the rounds. Here’s the thing though – the bands that arose from that scene and became huge at least grew that profile over time The Agony Scene are launching themselves in all guns blazing with little to put their name to already, and while Tormentor certainly isn’t bad, it won’t do anything to push the boat out or blow anyone away with regards to what metal is doing at the minute. At least with eleven years since their last album behind them, and that band’s reputation in tatters at the moment, there’s at least a chance for The Agony Scene to make something of a comeback with Tormentor. Just take The Agony Scene, who started life as a Christian metal band and, despite releasing their 2005 album The Darkest Red on Roadrunner, found their attempts at breaking through scuppered by As I Lay Dying arguably filling the same niche. For as celebrated as the new wave of American heavy metal was and still is, birthing what would become metalcore and seeing the rise of some of the 21st Century’s most important metal bands, it’s fair to say that, like its British counterpart in the ‘70s and ‘80s, not everyone was held to the same lofty height.
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