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Album Review : Polaris – ‘Fatalism’

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Review by Paul Monkhouse for MPM

It’s been a shattering time for Sydney Metalcore outfit Polaris. With the recent, sudden passing of lead guitarist Ryan Siew in June, their world has been turned upside down and just having finished recording their third album everything was suddenly thrown into unexpected territory.

Fortunately, the band decided to continue with the release and ‘Fatalism’ stands as a huge testament to their achievements and their fallen brother’s talent.

Over the past eleven years, the quintet has refined their sound into something that mixes the brutal and the heavenly, joyously uplighting sounds slashed and torn apart by sheer brutalism.

It’s an intoxicating experience as they swing you, rollercoaster-like, from nose-bleeding highs to soul-scorching lows with an intelligence and verve that few manage. This new album stands not just as their finest achievement yet, the refinement of all they’ve been aiming at and a thunderous next step of their journey.

Over eleven tracks, Polaris track triumph and tragedy with a passion that is enough to tear flesh from bone and heal the deepest of wounds.

As with all storms, the beginning of opening track ‘Harbinger’ is set in peace, the cataclysm yet to come a faint grey on the horizon, the music lifting itself until the half point where the peace of Jake Steinhauser’s melodic voice gives way to the fury of Jamie Hails vocals and Seiw’s fretwork giving full vent.

This blistering start sets that pattern for all to come, the storm buffeting the emotions like a ship caught in a cyclone, the sledgehammer attack and sludgy riffing of ‘Nightmare’ slipping smoothly into something that borders on the angelic a clear illustration of this delicious tension.

The brutal Tech Metal workout of ‘Parasite’ and a bruising ‘Aftertouch’ show the band flexing their muscles but it’s in ‘Dissipate’ that they’re at their finest as it swoops and crushes with well-timed ease. By the time the last shuddering notes of ‘All In Vain’ fade away Polaris have achieved all the set out for and more, the world-destroying power they’ve unleashed from the studio set to cause waves around the globe from their Antipodean base.

Not just an ear and earth shattering piece of work but a worthy record of the lost too soon guitarist, Polaris have raised the bar yet again.

FATALISM TRACK LISTING:
01. Harbinger
02. Nightmare
03. Parasites
04. Overflow
05. With Regards
06. Inhumane
07. The Crossfire
08. Dissipate
09. Aftertouch
10. Fault Line
11. All In Vein

Follow Polaris online:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/polarisaus/

Instagram: @PolarisAus

Twitter: @PolarisAus

Pre-order new album Fatalism here: https://bfan.link/fatalism

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