Heresy – Ordinary Decent Life
Heresy – Ordinary Decent Life
M&O Music
Release Date: 17/04/2026
Review by Victor Augusto
8.5/10
As a long-time – cheap talk person about following a band’s evolution since the beginning, when I have a chance to do it, here is a band that I really wish to have the chance to follow since their early days. The French thrashers of Heresy reached their third album after 15 years of career, and it is the first time I’m having the chance to check them out, and I have to confess that the reason that made me interested in writing about them is how tight and mature I felt them about having an own identity.
Of course, it is the natural course when you are more than a decade on the road, but I believe the main musical detail I enjoyed is how calm they are playing Thrash Metal here. For this style, we can expect aggressiveness, especially when the references written about them are influences such as Megadeth. Ok, it is clearly Megadeth, also Anthrax, is diluted in there, especially when we talk about leads and a few structures of riffs, but there is a good vibe and energy coming from their music that I believe is more associated with Heresy as itself than any other influences.
The melodies are great as well, making me even think that Traditional Heavy Metal names, such as Accept or Judas Priest, were the base to put Thrash structure over it. One single example of my cheap talking could be the great song ‘Caveat Emptor’, which was even a good choice to be the first single of this new album. If you want something more complex or technical, you can pick up ‘Innersight’ as the song to know about them.
So far, maybe I gave an impression of a ‘fluffy band’ trying to be heavy, but not. They are indeed heavy and aggressive, as you can hear in ‘Locked inside your Head’, but the main thing is how they extract emotions from what they are talking to put into riffs or solos. Maybe songs such as ‘86 Days without Sun’ can sound more like Metallica’s Fade to black, but I enforce how great they put their own identity over it.
“Ordinary Decent Life” brings inspirations from the best of Anthrax or Megadeth, but the main thing about these French guys is how they use those Thrash elements just as influences, not fleeing from having a specific way to play. The recording production is also a good aspect of sounding organic and good at the same time, which is something rare nowadays.
Caveat Emptor – OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
TRACKLISTING:
01. Dancing Shadows on Burning Grounds
02. Straight to the Wall
03. Caveat Emptor
04. Locked inside your Head
05. Concrete Road
06. 86 Days without Sun
07. Innersight
08. Between the Lines
09. Stray Dogs
LINE-UP:
Geoffrey Darras – Vocals/Guitar
Cyril Valade – Drums
Antoine Betti – Guitar
Jean-Philippe Dejean – Bass
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