Mutiny

This self-titled EP from skacore supergroup Mutiny takes a bit to get your head around. I think that there's a lot of potential here, but the blending of ska and metalcore feels a bit too jarring at times. Take the opening track of the EP and only single, This Is A Eulogy. The patterns are distinctly ska while the delivery is distinctly metal and the clash is interesting, but the two styles feels like they're mixing wrong. The emphasis on the off beats creates this really strange feeling that the entire song is extremely off balance in a way that's hard to describe without hearing it, because the rest of the song has the trappings of a metalcore song which is usually focused on the on-beats. While I haven't listened to any other acts from this group's making, I've listened to Dissidente before who are more hardcore punk adjacent than metalcore and that hardcore punk tends to blend a lot better.

Also another thing of note, I didn't get through all of them, but the Japanese renditions of these tracks are rather interesting. The vocalists almost cause the songs to have this whole different life to them and it makes the songs actually kind of worth re-listening to after the first go around as a result.

A weird EP but definitely interesting to say the least.