Not to be confused with the deathcore band from Cleveland, USA or the Finnish black metal/dark ambient band either, this third band under the Cholera moniker is a progressive death metal band from Ottawa, Canada.
Wrote and recorded back in 2007/08 when the two members were just sixteen years old each, 'Enslaved Humanity' is the debut EP from Cholera and it's quite an interesting ride that's just two songs long, yet this EP runs for no less than twenty one minutes of music. When listening to this EP aspects of bands like Opeth, Dream Theater, Nile, Behemoth, Arcturus and Scholomance come to mind, though Cholera still sounds very fresh and absolutely original in their delivery.
Were talking heavy technical machine-gun riffing, wild solos, fast pummeling drums, both progressive rock-ish, symphonic and some ambient/soundtrack atmospheric synth flourishes and a fair balance between growled and cleanly sung vocals make appearances in these twenty one minutes. The music generally moves at a fast pace and can blow by you fairly quickly with some subtle greatness, fortunately there are some calmer moments and even some purely ambient sections too. Occasionally I even hear the band reaching some epic proportions, which just really gets me reved up to hear more from these two.
The growled vocals are hardly the most guttural delivery I've ever heard and in fact with the lyrics in front of me its easy to decipher what's being said. Somehow a more low growler seems appropriate here but maybe that's just me. The clean vocals however seem slightly odd since it seems like their are some heavy effects placed on them rather than just allowing the natural voice to show. Of course it's not awful, but just something to get used to. Oh, and the production on this little EP isn't half bad either. These two are definitely on to something good here.
Enslaved Humanity is a fantastic first strike from this Ottawa, Canada based band and hopefully they won't make us wait to long for a full-length. Head over to their Myspace page to hear samples of both of these songs.
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