Maloic - Death (EN)

Maloic is a melodic death metal band from India, which, according to their facebook page (for the first time I was let down by Metal Archives), was built in 2012 and which makes its debut on 25.01.2017. This album, as far as I can tell you beforehand, makes you sit up.

The listener is served melodic death metal with a distinct progressive touch, as it's already made clear with the diverse opening "Foul Blood", which starts with acoustic guitars and which develops into a playful midtempo track with varied drums and several stroke-changes. Even if I listened to this track more appreciative than really enthusiastic, it still makes one want to listen to more and it gives one the feeling that one doesn't have a boring album here.

"Two Twelve Eighty Four" is more likely to demonstrate the ability to captivate the listener for real, as it has quite catchy melodies despite being quite progressive. As the first highlight of the album, however, I would describe "Unborn", whose melodies can be sustained in the auditory canal in some places and which can also accentuate with groovy Riffs.
The next highlight of the album is directly linked to the in mid-tempo held title song, in which the otherwise very discreet keyboard in the background can put some accents at the beginning of the first verse.
Even the about eight-minute length outro "The Rope" shows once more all the strengths of the band and can offer both progressive and some more catchy parts.

The proper production, which the album got donated, puts all the instruments appropriately in scene and does its best for the positive overall impression.

Conclusion:
Maloic created a good progressive melodic death metal album with "Death", which, as mentioned above, it contains some tracks that leave me more appreciative than enthusiastic, but it shows a band with a lot of potential nevertheless. Friends of progressive Melodic Death Metal should have a good time with this.

Rating: 7/10

Recommendation: none