My Will Supreme

I don't know. This album sounds good, meaning the production is very good. It's recorded in the same studio The Dying recorded. That's the good news and that's all of the good news.

This band is from Brugge, Belgium. As we all know Belgium isn't a country characterized by it's wonderful metal bands. Morda's previous efforts were more like metalcore and had much more power than this release. The music on this disc can be described as Heaven Shall Burn, but way slower, with boring riffs, repetitive drums and on top of that, the vocals aren't what they're supposed to be. they're not bad at all, but for some sinister reason a irritating effect is draped above it ( or are these his real vocals? Then it is crappy). And that's not just happening once, no, it's the whole album like this. Sometimes the vocalist uses 'clean' vocals. Without effect, phew. But he's not singing, it's more like talking. Bugger.

But in the half of the album, everything starts to get a little better and that's the reason why I gave this album 60 instead of 40 or 50.
But heck, what does an album say? If you see this guys live you'll forget about it immediately, cause live these guys guarantee a brutal kickass entertaining show.

It's top-notch Belgium metalcore, but it's not good enough to devastate the other metalcore bands all around the world and grab it's own position in the metalcore-top.

There's not much to say about this album, simply because it's not that different from all the other (well, at least most) metalcore albums. These guys rule the music scene where I live. They headline about every single show in the area, and it's hard to find somebody in the town that hasn't seen Morda live. Honestly, I can understand why. I'm not a big fan of metalcore, so perhaps I'm biased when writing about this thing. Nonetheless, I think their shows are fun. Since there is a lack of good metal in the area, this is the only option when you want to let some of your frustrations out.

I think that’s the idea behind this record. Basically, it's just anger put on cd. The production is pretty good considering that these guys are only a local band. I will say even more, the good production is the only reason why I listened to this album in its entirety. It's a lot less aggressive than their previous efforts, probably because they have less to be angry about this time. On the release party, it became clear that a lot of people were anticipating this record. I'm sure the band members knew this aswell, and therefore didn't really bother to make a "masterpiece", as their monopoly on the regional scene was hard to break anyway.

The result is a mediocre metalcore record that reminds one of Heaven Shall Burn, a band which (coincidence?) they often tour with. Most of the tracks could easily be B-sides for a HSB album, which is not really surprising. The same thing goes for the other (Azerion and 86) albums. The lyrics deal with personal struggles and life experiences. As if we haven’t heard any band talk about that before. The riffage is not that special; it has some cool riffs but most of them sound exactly the same as all the other metalcore ones. Heavily distorted, drop tuned guitars can be heard on all of the songs. There are a couple of breakdowns in most of the tracks but not a single good solo; yet again predictable aspects for this genre. The breakdowns are annoying as hell, to say the least. Just changing one of them into an awesome solo would probably earn this album a couple more percentages for my review. Mike's drumming is not that bad, with his double bass pounding throughout most of the album. The drums seem to be mixed in pretty well, at the right volume and with a raw edge to it. Not an outstanding performance, but certainly not bad either. As for the vocals, nothing special either. The clean vocals are just bad. I mean, god knows why they even tried putting in clean vocals, it’s clear that the singer can’t handle them. They kicked out their previous vocalist last year and replaced him with another one (duh), who is familiar with the local scene and has about the same style as their first singer. As pointed out before, he tries to sing some clean vocals, much to my annoyance ... There's not much more to add, because anybody who has heard a couple of metalcore albums knows what the vocals sound like on this one.

To sum it up, if you're into the genre you might enjoy this ... but if you're not, you're going to hate it. Don't expect anything groundbreaking or original, though. I don’t blame Morda for this, though, because their fans would buy anything they put out. They don’t need to be original or innovative; rehashing old riffs and ideas is enough to get their records sold. The most positive thing about this album is the production. All the rest is (just) mediocre metalcore.