Titans Eve     

Life Apocalypse

Titans Eve Music 2012

Canadian progressive thrashers Titans Eve forge an album of aggression tempered by instrumentation on their sophomore effort.  Beautiful clean guitar sets the stage before a churning wall of thrash riffs surge forward on Destined To Die.  The beat is an insistent pounding that provides a solid structure for meaty riffs that bring to mind later era Forbidden.  A period of melodic guitar and vocals sweeps across the song's middle and includes an imposing guitar solo.  Fierce chugging and drum rolls pummel from the outset of Road To Ruin.  The track settles into a determined main riff with melodic overtones that create moments of epic clarity.  The Abyss gathers more melodic momentum and intricate soloing to go along with a song structure and promotes visions of grand designs and distant horizons.  Beautiful melodies and shredded by destructive riffs and images of Heathen are conjured as the instrumental Descension fades into the title-track.  The main riff bounces along and the drums continue their methodical hammering as the song draws deeper into its own folds.  Hollow Gods is a rip roaring frolic through intricate fingerplay and bulldozer thrash.  After the crashing of giant, beefy riffs you are stabbed by speedy melodies and galloping segments, all of which sway like waves in a stormy ocean.  With Titans Eve's music you aren't so much totally thrashing out, you really sit back and contemplate and are left feeling like the album is a long sea voyage.  If you like Bay Area thrash with a bid of an epic mindset (think Forbidden with moments of Gothenburg-esque melodies and progressive periods ala Anacrusis) then Titans Eve will draw you in and leave you exhausted after an odyssey of metallic mastery.