Year Of Desolation

When a band calls Indiana home, it's already got hurdles to climb. With a state best known for car racing and corn stalks as its stomping grounds, YEAR OF DESOLATION is one of those bands that just has to let their music do the talking. No fashion, no dancing in the pit, and no singing, just playing music that's unabashedly metal, and can win fans over night after night on technicality and sheer musicianship alone. Metal, after all, is what it's all about for YEAR OF DESOLATION. Melodic inspirations aside, as long as the songs are thrashingly heavy, fast, and uncompromising, this band doesn't need to fall back on conventional verse-chorus-verse-chorus song construction or gimmicky flavor of the week styles to appeal to the metalhead inside us all. Instead, the band sticks to their guns, and plays music they want to hear, music that's fast, heavy, brutal, and still melodic enough to contain memorable riffs and leads, creating songs that stand apart from each other. With the January 2007 release of YEAR OF DESOLATION' Prosthetic debut, a self-titled effort, that's exactly the combination that will help replace faith in modern metal music without gimmicks.