Svedestada – Candela
Svdestada – Candela
Self-Released
Release Date: 05/01/2024
Running Time: 33:17
Review by Victor Augusto
8.5/10
If you already wasted your time reading my reviews, you probably know that I often choose bands to review without any reasonable criteria. Sometimes, I just want to hear different stuff, but for Spanish band Svdestada, I just got very interested when they described themselves as a Blackened Crust/Punk band and if I am not wrong, I also read something like Black Metal-Punk in there somewhere. Well, I can say that it is worth my choice.
To summarise the band’s third album, it is a mix of everything they mentioned, to my absolute surprise. The fast speed of Crust/Hardcore, allied with melodies of California Punk Rock, mainly on guitars and dark atmosphere of every track that carries the title of Blackened. So far, I just reinforced what everyone has already known about the band, considering you just need to read their profile on Bandcamp, but what makes this album so interesting?
Balance!!! Yes, balance! Everything comes in a good measure. The Blackened and dark sound is not so dark all the time. The fast and dirty Crust is not tiring after being repeated all the time. Even the melodies are not repetitive. Every single influence appears to offer something new to your ears and this balance is something that not every band understands.
Songs like ‘Cierzo’ and the opening track ‘Nudo’ can define it well, having Punk as the main influence. ‘Hilonegro’ starts to show more the Black Metal influences, musically speaking, but the Crust/Punk is still very present, mainly on the drum fills, although this track is full of blastbeats. The lyrics in Spanish bring an extra taste for the music and makes it easier to understand the concept, for me, that speaks Portuguese, despite the fact that I can’t speak one word in their language. Even the closing song ‘Candela’ with its 11 minutes long still offers the happy side of Punk, but as you probably can imagine, the focus here is more depressing music.
Even after listening to the entire album for more than a week in a row, “Candela ” still surprises me with the way the band puts so many different styles together without sounding overbearing in any of them. For sure, discovering this Spanish band called Svdestada to review was one of the best things this year!
Svdestada- Nudo
TRACKLISTING:
01. Nudo
02. Cierzo
03. Amargor
04. Efímero
05. Hilonegro
06. Sinvivir
07. Candela
LINE-UP:
Jorge Urosa – Bass
Eder de la Cámara – Drums
Mario C. Vaises – Vocals
Fernando Lamattina – Guitars
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