Fathoms - Transitions
Since their inception at the end of 2010, Brighton bruisers ‘Fathoms’ have already comprehensively toured throughout the UK, bagging tour slots with the likes of Polar, Dividing The Silence, Final Crisis, and Napoleon, as well as racking up shows with Legend and Set Your Goals.
Merging passion with belligerence, Fathoms offer their candid hearts and naked guts to an audience, ensuring that every show is full of energy and raw honesty, an admirable quality given the sheer influx of present-day metal bands who seem to lack true fervour. Fathoms’ shows are impassioned events that are both full-blooded and vigorous.
After persistent touring, the band decided to lock themselves down in the recording studio to cut tracks for their debut record; the end result is their explosive debut EP ‘Transitions’ which is set to break the high-flying scamps from the underground.
A true corker of a release, ‘Transitions’ is rammed with gut-wrenching vocal growls and vicious guitar parts, melding powerful modern metal with gritty hardcore.
The record showcases the band’s astute ability to fuse and merge genres, despatching intoxicating songs that extract influence from a variety of areas, from the technical guile of fellow home-towners ‘Architects’ to the fierce power of ‘Ghost Inside’.
The opening track on the EP ‘All Roads Lead To Here’ is big and ballsy and an ideal sampler for the shape of things to come. ‘Middle Ground’ features Chad Ruhlig from Legend and is one of the many highlights of the EP.
Fathoms will hit the road yet again this Autumn in support of their thunderous EP ‘Transitions’. You have been duly warned; the band are poised for great things in 2013.