CD REVIEW: THE VICE – The Vice

CD REVIEW: THE VICE – The Vice
Rambo Records
August 2016
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7 ½ /10

A darkly inventive mutant that hints at influences as diverse as Entombed, Nine Inch Nails, Guns n’ Roses, Danzig and more, Stockholm’s The Vice’s first full-length album is an enthralling and confronting rock-metal-goth hybrid.

The Vice have a new EP out this month, and have been getting out and about through Europe recently, and here, from Homecoming Queens, a darker take on ‘80s hair metal, through the goth-eyelinered Tried and The Number Of Four, Sirens’ wailing cries of ‘don’t leave me,’ the post punk-meets-metal Southern Comfort, and the goth metal-Cure of closer Call Them Shadows, it’s obvious that The Vice aren’t afraid to draw elements from any which where into their mutant metal beast.

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