Concord the World

Reviewed by Sagiv Shaniv

Artist: iNSANE
Album: Concord the World
Label: Under the Music
Release Date: 2012

Tracklist:

1. The light at the end of the tunnel
2. Concord the world
3. Lighthouse
4. City of havoc
5. Waiting for the summer rain
6. These are the ones
7. The last party
8. Coda

“Concord the World” is the album released earlier this year by Hungarian metalcore band iNSANE.
The album seems very short that I would’ve defined as an EP with some short quiet instrumentals between some of the songs.
The album is purely metalcore, including the lyrical concept, combining all the traditional characteristics of the genre.

The first track is an instrumental that reminds of Dio’s Holy Diver for a fraction of a second, which ends just to fit perfectly into the next track that quickly escalates into a wild emotional song concerning music and its power over an individual. The third and fourth tracks are rather regular metalcore songs, reminding me a bit of Periphery’s first album which was heavily influenced by metalcore, mostly on the vocal parts, causing the resemblance between it and the album I’m reviewing right now.
Fifth track “Waiting for the summer rain” is a smooth, short instrumental composed of clean electric guitars, which have a fat and full sound. Very nice indeed!
Tracks six and seven form an ending to the album, being heavy right-to-the-point with screams that wouldn’t shame even Tom Araya (In a case he was a heavy smoker with a lowered voice).
“Coda” the closing instrumental, is very similar to its predecessors in the album, continuing the same musical line that gives us a recess from the breaks, harsh songs that the band lands on us one after another.

Metalcore has been here for more than a decade, with big bands that lead it such as Killswitch Engage and Bullet for My Valentine. I was never a fan of this genre, nor I am now, but I must say that I think few will dispute me if I say iNSANE bring pretty much nothing new to the market.
The album is rather mediocre in my humble opinion, but I bet a Hungarian Forint that metalcore fans will enjoy this album.

6/10