Reviewed by David Pearce

Artist – My Scarlet Eyes
Album – The Sound Of Our Revolt Ep
Label – Dead Valley/Indie
Year – 2012

Track Listing
1. Cold Stars
2. One Voice Rising
3. For Your Brown Eyes
4. The Sound Of Our Revolt

My Scarlet Eyes were born in a hot summer of 2011 in Imperia, a small and boring town in North of Italy. Four guys wanted to form a hardcore/metalcore band, mostly inspired by bands as Caliban, Darkest Hour, Ghost Inside, Parkway Drive, Killswitch Engage and many others, trying to merge the pure hardcore sounds with melodic death metal of the Scandinavian tradition.
After a first period spent in writing brand new songs, and looking for a drummer, they met the fifth member, and they entered in studio to record their first promo. “The Sound Of Our Revolt”, containing four tracks (“For Your Brown Eyes”, “One Voice Rising”, “Cold Stars” and of course, “The Sound Of Our Revolt”). They are all Listenable on their Facebook, Myspace and Youtube official page. All tracks were recorded and mixed at Dead Valley Studio, owned by one of the guys. Now the five guys are working hard to record their first album, coming out in late winter, 2013, and of course they’ll play live during summer around Italy, to make brave people mosh hard!

The first song on the Ep is Cold Stars when you start playing this you are hit with the full power of this band you have pounding drums, real deep screaming vocal work, really good guitars and it doe’s slow down with a good little riff two or three times in the song which gives it a good tempo to it. The second song is One Voice Rising this song starts with an up tempo beat and a good riff then the vocals come in with that easily recognised vocal style. The song has some real good guitar work in there along with the drums makes this a song that you could easily get a circle pit going to. The Third song is For Your Brown Eyes this song is a full assault on the ears you can really feel the power on this song it has some good guitar work and some good extras within the song. The power of the galloping guitars and pounding drums make it another top song by these guys. The Fourth and Final song on this Ep is the title song The Sound Of Our Revolt and this is well worth waiting for as it is full on power and with some good vocal work, pounding drums and shredding guitars in the middle on the song it slows right down with some clean guitars and vocal work which gives the song a bit of an edge then it’s back to the heavy guitars and some really good riffs towards the end it is a real good song that deserves to be the title song of this Ep.

Overall
This Ep is really good, it’s full of good heavy riffs, pounding drums and good quality vocals. The Ep is I hope the start of this bands rise to glory cause they have made a real good Ep here if you like Cradle Of Filth and those types of bands you will like these. These guys are here for a long time to come.

8/10

My Scarlet Eyes are:

Gionata Giribaldi (Vocals)
Luca Bertoni (Lead Guitar)
Luca Massari (Rhythm Guitar)
Claudio Tassone (Bass)
Lorenzo Franzone (Drums)