The Unravelling's 'Tear a Hole in the Collective Vision' Album Review

Moving with connotations of deep inner angst, there is left in The Unravelling’s music that deciphers between moments of pure anxiety and righteous fervor. Perhaps this acrobatic feat comes from the band’s combined efforts in rejecting false hope within inner tumultuous reality and concise renderings of what changes are engulfed in regards to the band members’ health. Over their physical challenges, there are lessons to be learned of what is evoked in their sound.

The Unravelling’s sound comes from lead singer Steve Moore and his collaborative efforts with the project’s founder and instrumentalist, Gustavo De Beauville. The duo have since lent their music to opening for acts such as Helmet and Bison BC. Among other achievements, they have also topped the CJSW Metal charts, and have been nominated for three 2010 Alberta Metal Awards, winning in the Best Album Production category.

Hailing from Calgary, The Unravelling’s mammoth recording of their debut full length album, titled, Tear a Hole in the Collective Vision, was received with a fair amount of fanfare.

Their metal/rock influences are far from submerged in this ruthless album. In this 10-tracked relentless feat, The Unravelling have done a number in the guitarist’s fearless strumming and reverberating riffs. Their sound has a tense reverb that clashes with the backbeat being pushed in the forerunner. The spiraling effects that the band has endorsed into the closure of the opening track, “The Hydra’s Heart,” produces a heavy connotative sound that is not reduced in the tantalizing drumming and colliding forces of the guitar riffs.

Dissembling a sound that is oftentimes reminisce of just the right amount of energy being reduced to energetic entertainment, The Unravelling forges a blend of industrial into their hard rock and metal sounds. By the time their addicting rollicking garage blend of industrial metal rock washes over listeners, audiences will be having an ear-ful of converging sounds necking with the renderings of something newfound and underground. Daunting as well as invigorating, The Unravelling has precise timing when dreaming up their sound. From the masterminding of the band’s key instrumentalist, the duo’s Gustavo De Beauville, has the inner workings of the band’s distorting sound just to a tee.