Slowly We Roth Magazine #7
Not sure if you'll agree with me, but it seems nowadays most bands release official material quite late in their career, most of them don't ever release demos before either, and that's the case of this Ukrainian band, too. 2 decades ago bands were releasing stuff weeks after their formation, they were eager to get noticed asap, but nowadays it seems everyone takes its time, not rushing anything and working hard to have it all nice and dandy by the official release time; probably that's why there are so many professional and talented bands out there, that's why this fierce competition. Gettings back to Red Hills, this quintet was founded back in 2009 and this is their debut full-length album made of 8 tracks and totaling 25 minutes of Finnish inspired Melodic Death Metal, the Children of Bodom-like Metal based on Power Metal guitar leads and solos all over the place, and the same type of vocals I don't really like (they sound like the man is getting burnt while cooking breakfast: ya, yau, yau, ya), but I fully agree it's a nice piece of Metal, and if delivered by capable musicians its audition is a joy. Red Hills are skilled musicians and I'd say this is a very successful debut material (I'd say it's an EP rather than an LP), it's nice to see bands of this genre still standing tall even long time after the fashion. Fans of this genre will like it a lot, as for me I like the instrumental part but I can't listen to it anymore because of the vocals.
7/10
Adrian (Pest Webzine/Slowly We Roth Magazine)