Album Review: Colorsfade – In Real Time

Canadian skatepunks Colorsfade have just released their debut LP, In Real Time, that is served up as a follow up to the band’s Scream In Silence EP that was released back in 2016. Their latest eleven track offering, that also features guest appearances from Our Darkest Days and Down Memory Lane, is now available via Thousand Islands Records on CD and digital formats, as well as via the usual digital outlets.

An impressive Intro builds the expectation to In Real Time before Disaster hits you full on with a blast of melodic hardcore with a distinctly metallic edge, the riffs across the entire album are delivered with an almost thrash metal-esque intensity, but it’s one that is tempered by a melodic punk sensibility and a clean vocal style with harmony backing on the chorus, and of course a full quota of woahs. Colorsfade have delivered an album of melodic hardcore that has managed to straddle the two ends of the spectrum, on the one hand the riffs are as heavy and brutal as pretty much anyone else out there, but this is levelled out by the poppier approach favoured by an endless who’s who of epifat bands

In Real Time is an unrelenting album of melodic hardcore, every track is delivered at full tilt and as a result the tracks do tend to bleed into each other on a casual listen, but having said that there isn’t a weak track amongst the ten that populate the album. There’s an obvious influence from the likes of Bad Religion, Pennywise, Propagandhi and Strung Out in their sound, and if you’re a fan of any of those bands then In Real Time is an album that really should be nestling in your collection

In Real Time can be streamed and purchased via Bandcamp here

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