Vhan ... many, many people repeatedly
praised me their many merits, but unfortunately lack of time and
opportunity, I never lent an ear carefully to their music. Well,
error is human and I have this time a golden opportunity to catch up
this late with their first album « Hero VS Hero ».
From the first glance at the cover, I
understand that I matter to professionalism: the artwork is neat,
precise and put on a powerful contrast. Listening CD justifies this
perception over the 9 tracks (including a nice instrumental intro,
"Now You'll Know My .." before "Secret") of
metalcore that compound it, every of it has a meticulous accuracy and
a clean production with a very correct sound for a first opus.
Musically speaking, it innovates in the
sense that relatively less bands attempts the alliance metalcore /
heavy, and for me who is not at all a fan of this first style of
metal, I admit that the combination provides an interesting and
successful result. So while in the structure, I find that some
passages sound a little hollow and some additions have been
beneficial to fill just this feeling of emptiness, the riffs are
sharp and ultra square, the solos are all that are more respectable
without any unnecessary daring virtuosity, the battery is monstrously
heavy and accurate, while singing about it has nothing to envy to his
companions: Maune screams his guts and you hear it.
Each track of "Hero VS Hero"
can therefore be seriously considered as a bomb full of opportunity
and ready to explode, whether "Secret" and its more melodic
riffs, "His Life On TV" and its percussive chorus, or
"Crash" with its tempo changes and catchy hand without
losing accuracy.
To conclude, I would say that Vhan gave
us a sensitive high hopes with its first album, it goes without
saying that if the combo continues in this direction, it is dedicated
to a future of promise!