DESTRIERS GAIT

Originally called Subversion this Dallas, Texas band have been garnering positive feedback since 2005 and it’s easy to see why on ‘Hung, Drawn and Quartered’. Opening track ‘The End of Tranquility’ is a 30 second piano piece that fits the title perfectly because as soon as track 2, ‘Breathing Disaster’, comes in you’re hit with the full force of Destriers Gait in full flight. They are incredibly energetic if somewhat un-original as they fit into the Melodic Metalcore camp, but whilst many bands are focusing more on perfection when it comes to both production and fitting as many notes/ breakdowns into their music, Destriers Gait are not afraid to sound like a proper metal band, letting their songs breath with a life of their own. The name itself is quite unusual and for those that want to know: Destriers is a war horse, taken from the Anglo Norman times and Gait is how an animal or person moves and, of course, the album artwork makes a lot of sense here showing a battle with a war horse breathing fire! This is certainly one of the better efforts from an oversaturated genre and is from a band that I can see out growing the genre to achieve bigger things.

LABEL:

FORMAT:

Self-released

Album

HUNG, DRAWN, AND QUARTERED

Review by Paul Sims

RUNNING TIME:

44:35

RELEASE DATE:

September 2009

TRACK LISTING

1) The End of Tranquility
2) Breathing Disaster
3) Our City Sleeps in Flames
4) Accolade
5) The Iron March
6) Every Dream a Nightmare
7) Hands in Treachery
8) Heat of the Swarm
9) Those That Demand Surrender
10) Dissolution of Scorn
11) Hung, Drawn & Quartered

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:

USA

"This is certainly one of the better efforts from an oversaturated genre and is from a band that I can see out growing the genre to achieve bigger things."