Sometimes I like to change it up a bit and review bands that are in different metal genres such as doom or thrash. I decided to give THE PROPHECY a try. Formed in England in 2001 I wondered what this doom metal band had to offer. Into The Light is the third official release for this four man band.

At first listen I like what I hear. Down tuned guitars strummed slowly a death metal growl over the music. Dramatic slow drum beats. Sounds cool to me, yeah this is the death metal doom that I like. It starts getting heavier and heavier, and then… it changes. For the worse. The guitars start getting pretty, and then the vocals change to clean singing, which tends to sound whiney. If vocalist Matt Lawson would eliminate these whiney cries and just stick to his Death Metal growls which rival those of Opeth’s Mikael Ackerfeldt, then I could handle this album more. He tends to drift in and out of these vocals styles in every song. The music also changes from heavy doomy death metal to this clean and pretty, melodic metal. Kind of like if My Dying Bride and Opeth combined forces. Though THE PROPHECY is much less dramatic than My Dying Bride and rather lacks the passion that they embody. After several songs, I don’t know how much longer I can take listening to this album. Frankly, the clean vocals are really getting on my nerves and is rather ruining the music on this album for me. THE PROPHECY really needs to stick to one style or another and not combine the two, they may think it works, but I tend to disagree.

THE PROPHECY are good musicians, yes. The arrangement of the songs are alright, but the vocals or should I say in this case vokills really turn me away from this band.