Slave To Nature first formed in 2005 and started playing shows almost straight away. With 2 lineup changes, a year out of gigging and a slight change of style in the last 4 months Slave To Nature are ready and looking to take their music a step further. With one demo under there belts (2007 Prepare For War) Slave To Nature hit the studio again in January (2008) and a new demo will be out early Feb. If you like power metal bands like Helloween, Hammerfall and Maiden, mixed with new metal bands like Trivium, Bullet and Avenged Sevenfold then Slave To Nature is a band you definately want to hear!
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!-Create div with image. Replace my image with the URL of your own image-!With one member change since their last C.D. release Slave To Nature have not only picked up from where they left off, but vastly improved too. With the departure of old vocal/guitarist Tom Norman. The new line-up sees guitarist Matt Turnbull take on vocal duties as well playing and new member Dan Murtagh taking up lead guitar.
Three new songs feature on this E.P with a new remixed version of "Call Of Lazareth" being the opening track, making a total of four songs. This record truly represents a giant leap forwards for the band with the quality of the playing able to truly shine thanks to good production and far superior vocals to what they had released before, screaming and growling in places, but operatic most of the time with haunting backing wails echoing in places too.
" Call Of Lazareth " kicks things off, things seem so much more tight with this song and the new vocals take it even further to next level. The only real criticism about this record is that the growling seems to be too low in the mix and as such you do need to turn the volume up at times to hear it, it seems to feature most prevalently in the second song " Hurts to Breathe ". The haunting backing wails come to life in the third track " Set in Stone " which may be one of the most thoughtful songs the band has so far written, with an outstanding lead guitar part emerging at around the 2:30 mark. The closing and title track for the E.P " Prepare for War " " is a five minute journey of headbanging and air guitar with vocals singing of war, with hell and with one’s self, undoubtedly the E.P.s standout song.
This record allows Slave To Nature to show what huge potential they have and if they can put out a record like this at their age then the sky is indeed the limit.
Standout Tracks: Prepare For War
Set In Stone.
Slave To Nature is:
Matt Turnbull - Guitar/Vocals
Jonnii Guns - Lead Guitar
Jim Norman - Bass
James Bell - Drums/Percussion
Review by Mousey www.bedfordmetal.co.uk
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Review from DTA!Slave to Nature arrives onstage in a cloud of flailing hair and immediately impacts on the already vast crowd. Ticking all the right metal boxes (big riffs: machine-gun drumming: synchronised head-banging: Jack Daniels t-shirt), the Clophill foursome wears its influences proudly on its collective sleeve. There’s a dab of Metallica, a pinch of Bullet for My Valentine and a large helping of Trivium. Suitably the sound is bulky and entices more than a few fists in the air. Vocalist Matt Turnbull turns in a charismatic performance without being overstated, a trait not seen too often in the genre. A mischievous cover of "Beat It" sums up how fun this band is.
"Slave To Nature are a band with HUGE potential" - Keith Pickering, Bedford Metal
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