ANNISOKAY

Aurora

ARISING EMPIRE

German metalcore hopefuls claw their way towards top-dog status

ANNISOKAY HAVE BEEN plugging away since 2007, slowly carving out a sound that straddles glistening post-hardcore, melodeath and electronica-powered metalcore. In that time, they’ve delivered some banging tracks and supported Parkway Drive on their Russian Ire run, but they’re yet to nail a truly knockout record.

If fifth album is anything to go by, the Germans have had it with in everyway. Opener kicks down the doors with a barrage of thundering riffs and apocalyptic electronics that lands it somewhere in the middle of BMTH’s recent Asking Alexandria and Aussie upstarts Polaris, before an exhilarating chorus soars from the doom.