Majesty's new Shadows EP review!!

Hey guys, nothing really exciting happened this week (besides an awesome tastic barbeque). So I am going to do a review on Majesty's upcoming EP titled Shadows.
http://www.myspace.com/maj3sty
You can listen to it here and physically buy the album for 5$ in Canadian dollars. I don't feel like converting Canadian dollars into US dollars, but you can also buy it if you live in the US. If you're patient enough, they're posting their download soon. But if you have the money please support their talents!

After listening to their EP, like... 20 times, I think I can finally make a review on their music.


A little background of Majesty (directly taken from their MySpace)
Majesty is a death metal band formed in early 2009 from Georgetown and Burlington, Ontario, Canada. We have just finished tracking our 3 song EP with Jordan Valeriote at Sundown Studios in Guelph, Ontario. Eventually, these three songs will be available to download on the video game called Rock Band - hopefully by the end of 2009. We are still currently in need of a bassist. Majesty was created as a bunch of friends covering songs by artists such as Protest the Hero and As I Lay Dying, which progressively moved into faster and heavier aspects of the metal scene, evolving into death metal. Majesty started to create original material and documented all of the better music on Guitar Pro, and eventually began playing and practicing our own songs. We played our first show in May 2009, a battle of the bands, which we won first place against 12 other bands. This gave us free studio time - which we decided to not use. Immediately we were placed on an already packed roster for another show at the Sound Academy in Toronto, Ontario, which was the most horribly run show. We felt as if the band wasn't going to be doing anything great and lost momentum. After a couple of member changes, Majesty started full force writing again and now have an EP titled Shadows.

Okay, from all their songs you can definately hear their influences. The playing over all is great. They made a huge improvement from their original song Shadows Aren't Made For Hiding in terms of sound quality. These songs were done at Sunset Studios and were mastered there too. One huge notable sound quality difference is in the drums. On their first song Kyle's drums did not sound anything close to what it does now. The snare sounded a little bit like a marching snare, and the bass drum sounded like a big bumping sound. At first when I heard the song Silent Wars I thought that they had bought a new drum set for this EP, turns out they didn't. The recording equipment was just bumped up to professional quality, now it sounds like the typical metal band's drum set. The bass drum is that eagerly desired fast click, the snare sounds heavy and very dark.

The song Shadows is actually the new version of Shadows Aren't Made For Hiding, and they made a huge improvement on the song. I still have the original on my iPod and right now I'm listening to Shadows and you can easily find what they changed in the song. They kept the same theme though. I like the changes that they made in this song a lot. They changed the guitar intro and right after that they start going into a more faster paced riff that I seem to enjoy a lot. This song has a pretty fast break down.

The song Placebo reminds me of As I Lay Dying the most, the song is pretty hard core. The drum beat is simple but carries a lot of attitude into the song. The song is very eerie compared to the three. The song uses a lot of the same note over and over again like Almost Easy by A7X and changes it up. In most of the song, the bass drum is following the rhythm guitar. In a little way, this song has a part that reminds me of the bridge in Visions by Abnormality, but they make it sound a million times better. The song is probably their slowest song, also I personally didn't like this song as much as the other two.

The song Silent Wars is my favorite out of the three. In my opinion this is the most original song out of the 3 and definately defines Majesty's style of music. The beginning would be better if they got an actual orchestra to play instead of a synth. The intro comes in at first and then sets the mood for the song then Kyle comes in with a snare solo. After that the whole band comes in and it at first is a long chord with Billy playing the main theme in the background. I thought that was really cool. Right after that, they play probably the coolest riff in metal history. The drumming is insane in this song and the guitar solo is pretty sick too.

Here's the downside of this EP, I think that they have way too many breakdowns. They have them in each and every song which gets a little bit tiring. Some people may agree, some may not. I remember reading on their official FaceBook page theres a guy who said "You can never have too many breakdowns". Breakdowns in my oppinion leaves the song sounding a little bit empty. If they had Mike play a chord and have a basic bass line behind Billy then it would fill in that "emptiness".

How ever, I am really excited for this EP to come out in mid-November. If you're a huge fan of heavy metal, then I highly suggest you to get this EP. Its nothing like other heavy metal or death metal bands out there where its all speed and no musical composition. Even if you don't like screamo and just like metal, I think you'll enjoy this EP a lot. Its nothing like where its all just blasts and random chromatic notes, these guys actually PLAY great music. I also liked how they incoperated a synth (played by Kevin) in their songs. A lot of it reminds me of a horror movie, but it sets the mood for the songs a lot. These guys did a really great job on their first EP. I can't wait to see what they do later.