Review: Banshee- Events Occur In Real Time
(For the video version of this review, check at the bottom of this article). Banshee are a Hardcore/Metalcore band from upstate New York who have just released their new E.P., Events Occur In Real Time. The first thing that stood out to me with this band, as the album started, was that the band was drawing upon an earlier version of this music in some ways. I am a huge fan of “Melodeath” and the “Swedish Scene” from the Nineties that included At The Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, and others, but alas, the bands who usually play the style Banshee are lumped in with usually cannibalize the Melodeath scene to an extent that is outright sickening at times. Fortunately, in a refreshing way, Banshee goes back in some ways to bands like Earth Crisis or Vision Of Disorder. It's cool hearing a band that isn't always repeating something Dimebag or Jesper Stromblad invented 25 years ago for a change. “Terror Bird” is the first song. And features dissonant parts and spastic rhy