MHX's Chronicles are a quartet from São Paulo that released their debut album «Infinite Ocean» this year. The band's sound can be described as epic Melodic Death Metal. Lyrically and musically, it's all about travel and longing. The album has a particularly intense atmosphere with samples of the sound of the sea, short elegant string passages, dreamy piano melodies, progressive keyboard passages, technically influenced yet powerful riffs, playful rhythm sections, powerful clear vocals and unleashed growls. Both progressive fine spirits and genre fans get their money's worth.
São Paulo is a good breeding ground for metal, over the years many underground bands from this Brazilian region have managed to gain a foothold in the metal universe. Many have disappeared again, now with the band name MHX's Chronicles there is a band in the starting blocks who are really good at Melodic Death Metal! The quartet consisting of Murillo H. Xavier (vocals & guitar), Raphael Carvalho (drums), Michel Oliveira (guitar) and Wallace Ribeiro (bass) is technically good, quite coherent, Scandinavian roots, with typical Brazilian groove-oriented thrash attitudes to mate. Until now I didn't really know what to do with the name «MHX's Chronicles», because these Brazilian melodic deathers just released an EP, which I couldn't find anywhere with the best will in the world. So the debut “Infinite Ocean” is the baptism of fire and this will probably be no different for other metal fanatics.
MHX's Chronicles - The Way Home (Lyric Video)
As mentioned, riffs, verses and refrains sound very Nordic, not to say Finnish, and are actually nothing special, but due to the freshness and the burgeoning groove, the guys have a mixture ready with which they create a mighty hurricane. "Dark Tranquility", "In Flames" and the like may have been the inspiration here as rice board patterns. Once again that sounds like a cheap imitation, well not really, because the independence with which you can score excellently here stands for the end result that the Brazilians have conjured up here. The dark mixture of melodies and the ever-expanding groove flair are just a detail that cannot be denied, which pushes the guys forward. Intense brutality and a good grasp of the melodic box are very agreeable from the technical point of view, even if in the future you have to bring much more independence into the action. For a debut, it's quite impressive, but in this tough business and for continued existence, you need something more.
All in all «MHX's Chronicles» are good melodic deathers with a classy mix and you should take the time to immerse yourself in the entire album to fully enjoy it. If you really don't have the time or leisure for it, I recommend the songs "At the End", "Outcry" and "A Winter Song" as tips to play. For the further progress it will certainly need a little more momentum of its own, this simply has to be developed more, then doors and gates will be open to the boys from São Paulo. Fans of bands like «Soilwork», «Omnium Gatherum», «Insomnium», «In Flames», «Dark Tranquility» and all related bands can't go wrong here and overall «Infinite Ocean» sounds very entertaining.
02 - Conquest Of The Oceans - MHX's Chronicles (Infinite Ocean)
Tracklist:
- Overture of the Seas
- Conquest of the Oceans
- Castles in the sand
- The Way Home
- At the end
- outcry
- Sea
- Amazing Grace
- A winter song
- Moon and Sea
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