Subjektive : My Perception EP

There are times when – if you’re so inclined – you’ve simply got to love groove-based metal. Especially when it’s got touches of melody flitting about throughout, it’s a genre that quite readily can get your head bobbing and your heart pumping. Subjektive are a Melbourne-based two-piece, who obviously love Machine Head and Pantera, and here on My Perception they’ve put their own spin on the style. The bone-crushing riffs, aggressive vocals and titanic fat grooves are interspersed with some nice clean vocal passages, and the occasional thrashy moments to mix things up very nicely indeed. It’s tough as nails and really quite dynamic.
The songs themselves are punchy and strong, and the vocal harmonies have them sticking in your head for long moments after. Coward, especially, fairly bursts from the speakers and rips your head clean off, with the immortal line “Come get some!” howled by singer Aaron ‘Azcore’ Stevenson. The musicianship is also dead on the money, and the production job, performed by the ever reliable Ren Reich from Reich Records in Melbourne, gives the music a clean but ferocious edge that this style needs to be effective.
Subjektive actually remind me very much of an Adelaide band from a couple of years back called Isaw. Australian bands seem to do this ultra-ballsy, groove-laden style of metal extremely well, and Subjektive seem well placed to grab a profile on the Australian scene. Possibly even internationally if they keep working at it.
My Perception is a sensational starting point for these guys. Hoping for a full length soon.