Ambient rock and a choir of voices back up a spoken religious segment, as Craig Bannerman’s latest Christian Metal creation gears up for an explosive journey through conceptual contemplation.
Unto The Death is a near-five-minute metal set-up and song, an immense and epic ode to Christian Faith and storytelling, and presents the very best of Bannerman’s own evocative level of musicianship and design.
Complex storytelling reflective of an artist with a deeply impactful Faith running throughout his creative process – Unto The Death begins with the fall of Satan, and evolves through stages of surrender, transformation, hope, and ultimately, redemption.
The instrumental presence is huge, a compelling back and forth drawing focus from the start – moments of quiet riff-work and spoken lyrics, others that starkly juxtapose this – fast drums and distorted guitars representing the darker side of the story, of this battle, and of Satan’s fall.
Lyrics are minimalist but impactful, the music taking presence, but the guidance of that voice and these passages are essential to the proceeding mood and pace of the instrumentation. Craig Bannerman’s style is forever built of this kind of immense and powerful nature, thoughtfully structured with a beginning, middle, and an end, and musically balanced for that true emotional rollercoaster that is the depth of the journey at hand.
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