Nuclear Blast has once again signed a group from Garage Band... I remember giving a listen to Threat Signal's Rational Eyes on Garage Band in February, and actually thought that the group has potential. Much to my surprise, the band actually had already signed a contract with Nuclear Blast back then, so I began wondering when they would release their full-length album. After two months of actually discovering this group, I finally received the promo, which I've listened every now and then. Now with the release date closing in, I decided to write my thoughts about their album Under Reprisal.

Musically Threat Signal plays a modern blend of extreme metal with screamo and thrash metal influences. Imagine a mixture of Meshuggah, Soilwork and Shadows Fall - that's the first description that sprang to my mind while listening to this record. So you may await catchy yet groovy attitude metal with dominating screamo vocals along with the clean verses taking turn every once in a while. In addition there are few fairly eloquent guitar solos here and there. However, one drawback of the material is actually the excessive steadiness of the quality - at times it feels as if they play the same riffs over and over again, which makes repetitive listening of this album quite a ponderous task.

Threat Signal's music was rather well-produced already before they signed a record contract, but naturally Nuclear Blast arranged the material extra oomph it needed. Now the music sounds as powerful as it ever needs to - it's heavy as hell. Overall, Threat Signal's Under Reprisal is a very successful debut album, and definitely worth a listen if you're into the extreme breed of metal.

Release date: May 26th, 2006

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- MAGE (May 22nd, 2006)

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LINE-UP:
Mcknight, Kyle: Guitar Howard, Rich: Guitar Howard, Jon: Vocals Bressette, Marco: Bass Parfitt, George: Drums
Producer:	Wolbers, Christian Olde
Mixing by:	Unavailable
Mastering by:	Unavailable

	TRACKLIST:
	01. Rational Eyes 02. As I Destruct 03. One Last Breath 04. Seeing Red 05. A New Beginning 06. Counter Balance 07. Inane 08. Now 09. Faceless 10. Haunting 11. When All Is Said and Done Length: 47:08